Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §890.3100 (Physical Medicine panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#835 of 1000 · 586 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 586 reports
- RANK #835 of 1000
- DEATH 10 death-typed
- INJ 139 injury-typed
- MALF 368 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2012: 48
- PHOTO Mesh
Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia (0 report gap)
Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical sits #835 of 1000 among tracked device types with 586 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical carries 23.7% INJURY-coded reports, 6.6pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.7% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.2 pp)
- INJ 23.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-6.6 pp)
- MALF 62.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-2.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 79% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .
Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Mixer
Mixer, Breathing Gases, Anesthesia Inhalation
590 reports
- Chair (this)
Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical
586 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Absorbable, Abdominal Hernia
586 reports
- Syringe
Syringe, Irrigating (Non Dental)
586 reports
- Mouthguard
Mouthguard, Prescription
584 reports
- Calibrator
Calibrator, Multi-Analyte Mixture
582 reports
What this shows Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical carries 586 MAUDE reports, ranked #835 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 35 in 2025, up from an average of 24 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (586 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical 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 Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical; 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.