Clamp, Vascular
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §870.4450 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Clamp, Vascular MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#188 of 1000 · 12,982 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 12,982 reports
- RANK #188 of 1000
- DEATH 78 death-typed
- INJ 1,388 injury-typed
- MALF 11,424 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2003: 1,220
- PHOTO Pulse-Generator
Nearest event-volume peer: Pulse-Generator, Pacemaker, External (32 report gap)
Clamp, Vascular sits #188 of 1000 among tracked device types with 12,982 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 run above the device-type norm
Clamp, Vascular carries 88.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 23.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
- INJ 10.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.6 pp)
- MALF 88.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+23.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Replace is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer GUIDANT CARDIAC SURGERY accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 44% of location-tagged rows .
Clamp, Vascular in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Bone Cement
Bone Cement
13,130 reports
- Filler
Filler, Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein, Collagen Scaffold With Metal Prosthesis, Osteoinduction
13,040 reports
- Pulse-Generat…
Pulse-Generator, Pacemaker, External
13,014 reports
- Clamp (this)
Clamp, Vascular
12,982 reports
- Electrode
Electrode, Ph, Stomach
12,853 reports
- Shoulder Pros…
Shoulder Prosthesis, Reverse Configuration
12,771 reports
What this shows Clamp, Vascular carries 12,982 MAUDE reports, ranked #188 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
Reports in 2025 (449) held close to the prior two-year average of 525.
Related Entities for Clamp, Vascular
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare GUIDANT CARDIAC SURGERY vs MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Clamp, Vascular: 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 (12,982 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (78 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Clamp, Vascular 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 Clamp, Vascular; 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.