Compressor, Air, Portable
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 §868.6250 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Compressor, Air, Portable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#303 of 1000 · 5,408 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 5,408 reports
- RANK #303 of 1000
- DEATH 36 death-typed
- INJ 137 injury-typed
- MALF 3,745 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2013: 1,710
- PHOTO Folders And Injectors
Nearest event-volume peer: Folders And Injectors, Intraocular Lens (Iol) (58 report gap)
Compressor, Air, Portable sits #303 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,408 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Compressor, Air, Portable carries 2.5% INJURY-coded reports, 27.8pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
- INJ 2.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.8 pp)
- MALF 69.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+4.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Failure to Power Up is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 82% of location-tagged rows .
Compressor, Air, Portable in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pump
Pump, Breast, Powered
5,556 reports
- Compressor (this)
Compressor, Air, Portable
5,408 reports
- Folders And I…
Folders And Injectors, Intraocular Lens (Iol)
5,350 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Ceramic/Ceramic/Metal, Cemented Or Uncemented
5,340 reports
- Temporary Car…
Temporary Carotid Catheter For Embolic Capture
5,311 reports
- System
System, X-Ray, Tomography, Computed
5,243 reports
What this shows Compressor, Air, Portable carries 5,408 MAUDE reports, ranked #303 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 fell to 120 in 2025, down from an average of 246 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Compressor, Air, Portable
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Compressor, Air, Portable: 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 (5,408 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (36 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.