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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

#857 of 1000 · 554 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 554 reports
  • RANK #857 of 1000
  • DEATH 24 death-typed
  • INJ 262 injury-typed
  • MALF 224 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 49
  • PHOTO Cup, Menstrual

Nearest event-volume peer: Cup, Menstrual (1 report gap)

Chair, Positioning, Electric sits #857 of 1000 among tracked device types with 554 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Chair, Positioning, Electric carries 40.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.4pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 4.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.8 pp)
  • INJ 47.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+17.0 pp)
  • MALF 40.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-24.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% 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 554 MAUDE reports, ranked #857 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 262 (47.3%)
Malfunction 224 (40.4%)
24 (4.3%)
Death 24 (4.3%)
Other 20 (3.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 182 (31.9%)
Hospitalization 153 (26.8%)
108 (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 Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 248
Fire 48
Break 23
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 22
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 19
Use of Device Problem 15
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 14
Smoking 14
Unintended System Motion 12
Mechanical Problem 11
Insufficient Device Problem Information 10
Device Tipped Over 9
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 8
No Audible Alarm 8
Component Falling 7
Detachment Of Device Component 7
Device Alarm System 7
No Apparent Adverse Event 7
Sticking 7
Bent 5

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: 18

Reports in 2025 (30) held close to the prior two-year average of 25.

Related Entities for Chair, Positioning, Electric

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 65

Event Locations

293 (52.9%)
I 228 (41.2%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (1.4%)
HOME 7 (1.3%)
NURSING HOME 6 (1.1%)
OTHER 5 (0.9%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, Positioning, Electric: 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 (554 here).

Cup, Menstrual 553 Prosthesis 555 Applicator, Absorbent Tipped, Non-Sterile 552 Device 557

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.