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Chair, Positioning, Electric

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, Positioning, Electric LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#842 of 1000 · 543 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 543 reports
  • RANK #842 of 1000
  • DEATH 24 death-typed
  • INJ 253 injury-typed
  • MALF 222 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 49
  • PHOTO Endoscopic Injection…

Nearest event-volume peer: Endoscopic Injection Needle, Gastroenterology-Urology (0 report gap)

Chair, Positioning, Electric sits #842 of 1000 among tracked device types with 543 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 4.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.9 pp)
  • INJ 46.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+16.2 pp)
  • MALF 40.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-23.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Appropriate Term/Code Not Available is 67% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Chair, Positioning, Electric in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Chair, Positioning, Electric carries 543 MAUDE reports, ranked #842 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 253 (46.6%)
Malfunction 222 (40.9%)
24 (4.4%)
Death 24 (4.4%)
Other 20 (3.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 177 (31.3%)
Hospitalization 153 (27.1%)
107 (18.9%)
Life Threatening 42 (7.4%)
Required Intervention 37 (6.5%)
Death 26 (4.6%)
O 5 (0.9%)
R 5 (0.9%)
L 4 (0.7%)
H 3 (0.5%)
D 2 (0.4%)
S 2 (0.4%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 237
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 19
Fire 16
Break 8
Mechanical Problem 8
No Audible Alarm 8
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 7
Device Alarm System 7
No Apparent Adverse Event 7
Unintended System Motion 6
Use of Device Problem 6
Material Too Rigid or Stiff 4
Smoking 4
Device Fell 3
Device Tipped Over 2
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 2
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 2
Mechanical Jam 2
Patient Device Interaction Problem 2
Protective Measures Problem 2

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 4
98
1998: 7
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 13
01
2001: 19
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 6
04
2004: 4
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 6
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 20
12
2012: 15
13
2013: 24
14
2014: 16
15
2015: 23
16
2016: 35
17
2017: 38
18
2018: 38
19
2019: 37
20
2020: 41
21
2021: 49
22
2022: 29
23
2023: 29
24
2024: 20
25
2025: 30
26
2026: 7

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Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 64

Event Locations

282 (51.9%)
I 228 (42.0%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (1.5%)
HOME 7 (1.3%)
NURSING HOME 6 (1.1%)
OTHER 5 (0.9%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, Positioning, Electric, 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 (543 here).

Endoscopic Injection Needle 543 Cup, Menstrual 544 Needle, Suturing, Disposable 545 Instrument, Ent Manual Surgical 546

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (24 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus, Suction, Patient Care 24 Catheter, Oximeter, Fiber-Optic 24 Laparoscope, Gynecologic 24 Mesh 24

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Chair, Positioning, Electric 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, Positioning, Electric; 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.