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Compressor, Air, Portable

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 Compressor, Air, Portable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#306 of 1000 · 5,114 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 5,114 reports
  • RANK #306 of 1000
  • DEATH 36 death-typed
  • INJ 131 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,458 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 1,710
  • PHOTO Folders And Injectors

Nearest event-volume peer: Folders And Injectors, Intraocular Lens (Iol) (15 report gap)

Compressor, Air, Portable sits #306 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,114 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 2.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.9 pp)
  • MALF 67.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+3.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Power Up is 28% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB accounts for 45% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 81% of location-tagged rows .

Compressor, Air, Portable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Compressor, Air, Portable carries 5,114 MAUDE reports, ranked #306 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 3,458 (67.6%)
1,485 (29.0%)
Injury 131 (2.6%)
Death 36 (0.7%)
Other 4 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 3,194 (62.4%)
1,744 (34.1%)
Required Intervention 118 (2.3%)
Death 36 (0.7%)
Hospitalization 16 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.1%)
R 4 (0.1%)
L 2 (0.0%)
O 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Power Up 431
Output Problem 265
Decrease in Pressure 139
Pressure Problem 92
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 68
Infusion or Flow Problem 66
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 57
Device Displays Incorrect Message 47
Gas Output Problem 43
Noise, Audible 40
Insufficient Information 36
Loss of Power 34
Failure to Deliver 33
Moisture or Humidity Problem 31
Mechanical Problem 30
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 29
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 23
Leak/Splash 22
Device Inoperable 20
Improper Flow or Infusion 19

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 2
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 10
98
1998: 29
99
1999: 31
00
2000: 37
01
2001: 21
02
2002: 8
03
2003: 3
05
2005: 1
06
2006: 2
07
2007: 18
08
2008: 9
09
2009: 7
10
2010: 11
11
2011: 13
12
2012: 217
13
2013: 1,710
14
2014: 982
15
2015: 294
16
2016: 139
17
2017: 103
18
2018: 71
19
2019: 114
20
2020: 111
21
2021: 278
22
2022: 248
23
2023: 325
24
2024: 166
25
2025: 120
26
2026: 29

Related Entities for Compressor, Air, Portable

Top Manufacturers

MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB 1,421
INVACARE SUZHOU 1,038
RESPIRONICS INC 706

Event Locations

4,131 (80.8%)
I 718 (14.0%)
HOSPITAL 206 (4.0%)
NO INFORMATION 31 (0.6%)
HOME 16 (0.3%)
OTHER 8 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB vs INVACARE SUZHOU →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Compressor, Air, Portable, 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 (5,114 here).

Folders And Injectors, Intraocular Lens 5,129 Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5,092 Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted 5,092 Temporary Carotid Catheter For Embolic Capt… 5,148

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (36 here), distinct from the volume row.

Arthroscope 36 Dura Substitute 36 Heart-Valve, Allograft 36 Adhesive 35

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Compressor, Air, Portable 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 Compressor, Air, Portable; 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.