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Chair, Examination And Treatment

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 Chair, Examination And Treatment LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#802 of 1000 · 652 reports · 1997–2025

  • BOOK 652 reports
  • RANK #802 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 36 injury-typed
  • MALF 584 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2025
  • PEAK 2010: 279
  • PHOTO Prostate-Specific Ant…

Nearest event-volume peer: Prostate-Specific Antigen (Psa) For Management Of Prostate Cancers (1 report gap)

Chair, Examination And Treatment sits #802 of 1000 among tracked device types with 652 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2025. 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, Examination And Treatment carries 5.5% INJURY-coded reports, 24.8pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 5.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-24.8 pp)
  • MALF 89.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Sticking is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 76% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 84% of location-tagged rows .

Chair, Examination And Treatment in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Chair, Examination And Treatment carries 652 MAUDE reports, ranked #802 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 584 (89.6%)
Injury 36 (5.5%)
Other 27 (4.1%)
4 (0.6%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

613 (93.6%)
Other 30 (4.6%)
R 2 (0.3%)
Disability 2 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.3%)
Required Intervention 2 (0.3%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Sticking 126
Difficult To Position 117
Break 112
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 76
Device Slipped 55
Bent 36
Unintended System Motion 27
Detachment Of Device Component 21
Crack 13
Device Fell 13
Scratched Material 12
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 11
Material Twisted/Bent 11
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 9
Mechanical Problem 8
Collapse 7
Difficult to Open or Close 7
Sharp Edges 7
Unintended Movement 7
Material Integrity Problem 6

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
98
1998: 5
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 1
08
2008: 3
10
2010: 279
11
2011: 80
12
2012: 26
13
2013: 71
14
2014: 41
15
2015: 29
16
2016: 20
17
2017: 22
18
2018: 19
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 8
21
2021: 4
22
2022: 1
23
2023: 5
24
2024: 5
25
2025: 12

Reports rose to 5 in 2024, up from an average of 3 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Chair, Examination And Treatment

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 222
STRYKER MEDICAL 71

Event Locations

549 (84.2%)
I 81 (12.4%)
HOSPITAL 12 (1.8%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.3%)
HOME 1 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, Examination And Treatment: 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 (652 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Chair, Examination And Treatment 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, Examination And Treatment; 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.