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Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose)

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 Condenser, Heat And Moisture LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#940 of 1000 · 435 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 435 reports
  • RANK #940 of 1000
  • DEATH 11 death-typed
  • INJ 61 injury-typed
  • MALF 341 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 52
  • PHOTO Tape

Nearest event-volume peer: Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers (0 report gap)

Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose) sits #940 of 1000 among tracked device types with 435 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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

Condenser, Heat And Moisture carries 14.0% INJURY-coded reports, 16.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.0 pp)
  • INJ 14.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-16.3 pp)
  • MALF 78.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+13.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Disconnection is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 47% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .

Condenser, Heat And Moisture in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose) carries 435 MAUDE reports, ranked #940 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 341 (78.4%)
Injury 61 (14.0%)
Other 15 (3.4%)
Death 11 (2.5%)
7 (1.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

339 (76.0%)
Required Intervention 49 (11.0%)
Other 18 (4.0%)
Life Threatening 14 (3.1%)
R 10 (2.2%)
Death 10 (2.2%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.7%)
Disability 2 (0.4%)
L 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Disconnection 51
Leak/Splash 39
Crack 31
Material Separation 29
Moisture or Humidity Problem 20
Obstruction of Flow 19
Detachment Of Device Component 16
Defective Device 15
Loose or Intermittent Connection 15
Material Split, Cut or Torn 15
Replace 15
Break 14
Gas/Air Leak 13
Occlusion Within Device 11
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 11
Partial Blockage 11
Restricted Flow rate 10
Fitting Problem 9
Fracture 7
Alarm, audible 5

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 4
97
1997: 11
98
1998: 12
99
1999: 9
00
2000: 11
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 3
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 9
11
2011: 7
12
2012: 4
13
2013: 4
14
2014: 6
15
2015: 17
16
2016: 18
17
2017: 12
18
2018: 33
19
2019: 15
20
2020: 35
21
2021: 15
22
2022: 32
23
2023: 45
24
2024: 10
25
2025: 52
26
2026: 30

Reports rose to 52 in 2025, up from an average of 28 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose)

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 64
COVIDIEN 36
AVANOS MEDICAL INC. 35

Event Locations

206 (47.4%)
I 137 (31.5%)
HOSPITAL 76 (17.5%)
INVALID DATA 5 (1.1%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.9%)
HOME 3 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.5%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs COVIDIEN →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Condenser, Heat And Moisture: 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 (435 here).

Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers 435 Implanted Fecal Incontinence Device 436 Arterial Blood Sampling Kit 433 Lithotriptor, Electro-Hydraulic 438

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.

Cabinet, Table And Tray, Anesthesia 11 Circuit, Breathing 11 Collector 11 Heater 11

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Condenser, Heat And Moisture 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 Condenser, Heat And Moisture; 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.