What are FDA adverse event reports for Clip, Implantable?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Clip, Implantable, there are 41,375 total reports including 123 death reports and 3,368 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Clip, Implantable?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Clip, Implantable

Name: Clip, Implantable - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
Creator: PlainHospital
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Clip, Implantable MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#80 of 1000 · 41,375 reports · 1993–2026

BOOK 41,375 reports
RANK #80 of 1000
DEATH 123 death-typed
INJ 3,368 injury-typed
MALF 37,428 malfunction
SPAN 1993–2026
PEAK 2019: 2,903
PHOTO Neurological Stereota…

Nearest event-volume peer: Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument (722 report gap)

Clip, Implantable sits #80 of 1000 among tracked device types with 41,375 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 →

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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
INJ 8.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-22.3 pp)
MALF 90.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+26.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Form Staple is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Powered Laser…

42,730
Dialyzer

42,530
Neurological…

42,097
Clip (this)

41,375
Unit

40,288
Catheter

40,049

What this shows Clip, Implantable carries 41,375 MAUDE reports, ranked #80 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 37,428 (90.5%)

Injury 3,368 (8.1%)

343 (0.8%)

Death 123 (0.3%)

Other 113 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

37,430 (89.0%)

Required Intervention 2,068 (4.9%)

Other 1,204 (2.9%)

R 475 (1.1%)

Hospitalization 304 (0.7%)

Life Threatening 163 (0.4%)

Death 124 (0.3%)

O 88 (0.2%)

L 58 (0.1%)

Disability 55 (0.1%)

H 53 (0.1%)

S 34 (0.1%)

D 2 (0.0%)

Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1993: 1

1994: 2

1995: 7

1996: 36

1997: 20

1998: 9

1999: 16

2000: 8

2001: 32

2002: 66

2003: 181

2004: 119

2005: 124

2006: 1,031

2007: 1,877

2008: 981

2009: 2,160

2010: 2,367

2011: 1,678

2012: 1,677

2013: 2,381

2014: 2,317

2015: 2,871

2016: 1,840

2017: 2,594

2018: 2,718

2019: 2,903

2020: 1,760

2021: 1,759

2022: 1,575

2023: 1,918

2024: 2,067

2025: 1,919

2026: 361

Top Manufacturers

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. 17,821

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 4,204

DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD 4,039

APPLIED MEDICAL RESOURCES 2,140

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC 1,858

US SURGICAL PUERTO RICO 1,401

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (CINCINNATI) 1,241

ETHICON INC. 1,024

ETHICON ENDO SURGERY, INC. (CINCINNATI) 942

Event Locations

19,966 (48.3%)

I 13,672 (33.0%)

OTHER 3,770 (9.1%)

HOSPITAL 2,197 (5.3%)

NOT APPLICABLE 1,531 (3.7%)

NO INFORMATION 191 (0.5%)

UNKNOWN 24 (0.1%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 8 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 6 (0.0%)

OPERATING ROOM 4 (0.0%)

HOME 3 (0.0%)

INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. vs TELEFLEX MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Clip, Implantable, 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 (41,375 here).

Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument 42,097 Unit, Phacofragmentation 40,288 Dialyzer 42,530 Catheter, Percutaneous 40,049

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (123 here), distinct from the volume row.

Humidifier, Respiratory Gas, 124 Catheter 125 Endovascular Suturing System 125 Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy 126

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.

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Event-type mix vs corpus