What are FDA adverse event reports for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical, there are 564 total reports including 10 death reports and 135 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical

Name: Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#831 of 1000 · 564 reports · 1993–2026

BOOK 564 reports
RANK #831 of 1000
DEATH 10 death-typed
INJ 135 injury-typed
MALF 350 malfunction
SPAN 1993–2026
PEAK 2012: 48
PHOTO Injector

Nearest event-volume peer: Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic (0 report gap)

Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical sits #831 of 1000 among tracked device types with 564 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 →

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 1.8% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.3 pp)
INJ 23.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-6.5 pp)
MALF 62.1% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-2.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Fragmentation is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 79% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .

Device

568
Mouthguard

568
Chair (this)

564
Injector

564
Microspheres…

562
Counter

560

What this shows Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical carries 564 MAUDE reports, ranked #831 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 350 (62.1%)

Injury 135 (23.9%)

41 (7.3%)

Other 28 (5.0%)

Death 10 (1.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

321 (54.4%)

Other 120 (20.3%)

Hospitalization 53 (9.0%)

Required Intervention 44 (7.5%)

R 12 (2.0%)

Death 11 (1.9%)

O 6 (1.0%)

S 6 (1.0%)

Disability 6 (1.0%)

Life Threatening 5 (0.8%)

H 4 (0.7%)

Invalid Data 1 (0.2%)

Not Applicable 1 (0.2%)

Yearly Trend

1993: 2

1994: 9

1995: 7

1996: 12

1997: 31

1998: 7

1999: 8

2000: 8

2001: 7

2002: 11

2003: 17

2004: 3

2005: 9

2006: 7

2007: 8

2008: 10

2009: 12

2010: 16

2011: 17

2012: 48

2013: 5

2014: 3

2015: 16

2016: 26

2017: 21

2018: 22

2019: 29

2020: 43

2021: 30

2022: 32

2023: 22

2024: 25

2025: 35

2026: 6

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 138

UNKNOWN 17

INVAMEX 11

HILL-ROM, INC. 9

Event Locations

267 (47.3%)

I 146 (25.9%)

NURSING HOME 40 (7.1%)

HOSPITAL 37 (6.6%)

HOME 28 (5.0%)

NO INFORMATION 18 (3.2%)

INVALID DATA 9 (1.6%)

UNKNOWN 9 (1.6%)

OTHER 5 (0.9%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.4%)

DIALYSIS CENTER 1 (0.2%)

HOSPICE 1 (0.2%)

REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.2%)

Compare STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO vs UNKNOWN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical, 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 (564 here).

Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic 564 Microspheres Radionuclide 562 Counter, Sponge, Surgical 560 Device, Anastomotic, Microvascular 568

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter 10 Adaptor, Hygiene 10 Cabinet, Table And Tray, Anesthesia 10 Collector 10

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.

Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical

Event-type mix vs corpus