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Clamp, Vascular

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 Clamp, Vascular MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#190 of 1000 · 12,430 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 12,430 reports
  • RANK #190 of 1000
  • DEATH 76 death-typed
  • INJ 1,356 injury-typed
  • MALF 10,906 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2003: 1,220
  • PHOTO Endoscope

Nearest event-volume peer: Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum (19 report gap)

Clamp, Vascular sits #190 of 1000 among tracked device types with 12,430 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 →

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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
  • INJ 10.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-19.5 pp)
  • MALF 87.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fitting Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer GUIDANT CARDIAC SURGERY accounts for 33% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 42% of location-tagged rows .

Clamp, Vascular in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Clamp, Vascular carries 12,430 MAUDE reports, ranked #190 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 10,906 (87.7%)
Injury 1,356 (10.9%)
Death 76 (0.6%)
Other 57 (0.5%)
35 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

10,782 (85.0%)
Required Intervention 863 (6.8%)
Other 562 (4.4%)
R 146 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 89 (0.7%)
Death 76 (0.6%)
O 57 (0.4%)
Life Threatening 42 (0.3%)
L 23 (0.2%)
H 21 (0.2%)
S 10 (0.1%)
Disability 10 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Fitting Problem 823
Activation Problem 413
Gas/Air Leak 405
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 318
Deflation Problem 264
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 178
Failure to Unfold or Unwrap 171
Positioning Failure 141
Break 137
Air Leak 121
Difficult to Open or Close 118
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 114
Insufficient Information 97
Leak/Splash 94
Crack 79
Detachment of Device or Device Component 63
Mechanical Problem 63
Inflation Problem 57
Unraveled Material 53
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 52

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 2
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 26
97
1997: 42
98
1998: 31
99
1999: 26
00
2000: 17
01
2001: 32
02
2002: 45
03
2003: 1,220
04
2004: 672
05
2005: 972
06
2006: 297
07
2007: 298
08
2008: 302
09
2009: 539
10
2010: 600
11
2011: 691
12
2012: 548
13
2013: 920
14
2014: 494
15
2015: 374
16
2016: 494
17
2017: 416
18
2018: 391
19
2019: 393
20
2020: 404
21
2021: 371
22
2022: 273
23
2023: 674
24
2024: 375
25
2025: 449
26
2026: 37

Related Entities for Clamp, Vascular

Top Manufacturers

GUIDANT CARDIAC SURGERY 3,463
MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC 2,420
MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC 1,767
MAQUET CV 948
TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 902
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 368
MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC. 238
TERUMO CORPORATION, ASHITAKA 160
LIVANOVA DEUTSCHLAND 132

Event Locations

5,223 (42.0%)
HOSPITAL 3,975 (32.0%)
I 2,372 (19.1%)
OTHER 657 (5.3%)
NO INFORMATION 107 (0.9%)
NOT APPLICABLE 55 (0.4%)
UNKNOWN 22 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 13 (0.1%)
HOME 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare GUIDANT CARDIAC SURGERY vs MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Clamp, Vascular, 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 (12,430 here).

Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum 12,449 Prosthesis, Hip, Femoral, Resurfacing 12,475 Endoscopic Ultrasound System 12,569 Electrode, Ph, Stomach 12,589

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (76 here), distinct from the volume row.

Monitor, Bed Patient 76 Screw, Fixation, Bone 76 Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted 76 Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered 75

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.