Circuit, Breathing (W Connector, Adaptor, Y Piece)
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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Circuit, Breathing LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#451 of 1000 · 2,298 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 2,298 reports
- RANK #451 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 296 injury-typed
- MALF 1,867 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2023: 251
- PHOTO Intervertebral Fusion…
Nearest event-volume peer: Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrated Fixation, Cervical (4 report gap)
Circuit, Breathing (W Connector, Adaptor, Y Piece) sits #451 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,298 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- INJ 12.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-17.6 pp)
- MALF 81.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+16.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Gas/Air Leak is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .
Circuit, Breathing in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Femoral
2,315 reports
- Table
Table, Operating-Room, Ac-Powered
2,314 reports
- Iliac Covered…
Iliac Covered Stent, Arterial
2,308 reports
- Intervertebra…
Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrated Fixation, Cervical
2,302 reports
- Circuit (this)
Circuit, Breathing (W Connector, Adaptor, Y Piece)
2,298 reports
- Electrode Mea…
Electrode Measurement, Blood-Gases (Pco2, Po2) And Blood Ph
2,287 reports
What this shows Circuit, Breathing (W Connector, Adaptor, Y Piece) carries 2,298 MAUDE reports, ranked #451 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
Related Entities for Circuit, Breathing (W Connector, Adaptor, Y Piece)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs SMITHS MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL, LTD. →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Circuit, Breathing, 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 (2,298 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Circuit, Breathing 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 Circuit, Breathing; 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.