Clip, Implantable
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 §878.4300 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Clip, Implantable MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#82 of 1000 · 42,204 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 42,204 reports
- RANK #82 of 1000
- DEATH 126 death-typed
- INJ 3,405 injury-typed
- MALF 38,216 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2019: 2,903
- PHOTO Neurological Stereota…
Nearest event-volume peer: Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument (522 report gap)
Clip, Implantable sits #82 of 1000 among tracked device types with 42,204 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 run above the device-type norm
Clip, Implantable carries 90.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 25.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 8.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-22.2 pp)
- MALF 90.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+25.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Failure to Form Staple is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .
Clip, Implantable in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Dialyzer
Dialyzer, High Permeability With Or Without Sealed Dialysate System
43,552 reports
- Catheters
Catheters, Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, Percutaneous
43,512 reports
- Neurological…
Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument
42,726 reports
- Clip (this)
Clip, Implantable
42,204 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous
41,518 reports
- Unit
Unit, Phacofragmentation
41,218 reports
What this shows Clip, Implantable carries 42,204 MAUDE reports, ranked #82 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 (1,919) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,993.
Related Entities for Clip, Implantable
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. vs DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Clip, Implantable: 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 (42,204 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (126 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Clip, Implantable 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 Clip, Implantable; 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.