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Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Centrifuges For Clinical Use LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#816 of 1000 · 588 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 588 reports
  • RANK #816 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 26 injury-typed
  • MALF 542 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 130
  • PHOTO Guide

Nearest event-volume peer: Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature (0 report gap)

Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use sits #816 of 1000 among tracked device types with 588 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.9% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 4.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-26.0 pp)
  • MALF 92.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+27.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECKMAN COULTER accounts for 38% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Centrifuges For Clinical Use in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use carries 588 MAUDE reports, ranked #816 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 542 (92.2%)
Injury 26 (4.4%)
Other 10 (1.7%)
5 (0.9%)
Death 5 (0.9%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

462 (77.3%)
Other 106 (17.7%)
R 7 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 5 (0.8%)
Required Intervention 5 (0.8%)
Disability 4 (0.7%)
Death 3 (0.5%)
L 2 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.3%)
H 1 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 47
Material Fragmentation 28
Thermal Decomposition of Device 26
Inadequate User Interface 12
Device Expiration Issue 11
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 10
Charred 7
Detachment of Device or Device Component 7
Defective Component 4
Failure to Align 4
Use of Device Problem 4
Difficult to Open or Close 3
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 3
Smoking 3
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2
Burst Container or Vessel 2
Device Slipped 2
Expiration Date Error 2
Insufficient Information 2
Unintended Electrical Shock 2

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 3
98
1998: 5
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 14
04
2004: 12
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 35
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 40
12
2012: 18
13
2013: 26
14
2014: 112
15
2015: 130
16
2016: 70
17
2017: 31
18
2018: 10
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 1
22
2022: 1
23
2023: 4
24
2024: 2
25
2025: 6
26
2026: 2

Related Entities for Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use

Top Manufacturers

BECKMAN COULTER 57
BECKMAN COULTER, INC. 32
TERUMO BCT 32
BECKMAN COULTER INC. 20
ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. 9

Event Locations

371 (63.1%)
I 160 (27.2%)
HOSPITAL 33 (5.6%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (1.9%)
OTHER 6 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.3%)

Compare BECKMAN COULTER vs BECKMAN COULTER, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Centrifuges For Clinical Use, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (588 here).

Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature 588 Mixer 588 Neurosurgical Paddie 588 Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, 585

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

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Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Centrifuges For Clinical Use are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Centrifuges For Clinical Use; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.