Compressor, Cardiac, External
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 §870.5200 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Compressor, Cardiac, External MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#203 of 1000 · 11,220 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 11,220 reports
- RANK #203 of 1000
- DEATH 206 death-typed
- INJ 234 injury-typed
- MALF 10,748 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2013: 1,268
- PHOTO Recorder
Nearest event-volume peer: Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection) (6 report gap)
Compressor, Cardiac, External sits #203 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,220 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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
Compressor, Cardiac, External carries 95.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.8% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.3 pp)
- INJ 2.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-28.2 pp)
- MALF 95.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Visual Prompts will not Clear is 36% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ZOLL CIRCULATION accounts for 97% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Compressor, Cardiac, External in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Hemodialysis, Implanted
11,428 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation
11,392 reports
- Dermal Coolin…
Dermal Cooling Pack/Vacuum/Massager
11,387 reports
- Compressor (this)
Compressor, Cardiac, External
11,220 reports
- Recorder
Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection)
11,214 reports
- Ventilator
Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting
11,195 reports
What this shows Compressor, Cardiac, External carries 11,220 MAUDE reports, ranked #203 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 (698) held close to the prior two-year average of 738.
Related Entities for Compressor, Cardiac, External
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Compressor, Cardiac, External: 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 (11,220 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (206 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Compressor, Cardiac, External 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, Cardiac, External; 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.