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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 · 411 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 411 reports
  • RANK #940 of 1000
  • DEATH 11 death-typed
  • INJ 59 injury-typed
  • MALF 319 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 52
  • PHOTO Manometer

Nearest event-volume peer: Manometer, Spinal-Fluid (0 report gap)

Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose) sits #940 of 1000 among tracked device types with 411 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 →

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 2.7% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.2 pp)
  • INJ 14.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.1 pp)
  • MALF 77.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+13.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Disconnection is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 44% 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 411 MAUDE reports, ranked #940 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 319 (77.6%)
Injury 59 (14.4%)
Other 15 (3.6%)
Death 11 (2.7%)
7 (1.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

318 (75.4%)
Required Intervention 49 (11.6%)
Other 16 (3.8%)
Life Threatening 14 (3.3%)
R 10 (2.4%)
Death 10 (2.4%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.7%)
L 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Disconnection 38
Leak/Splash 33
Material Separation 25
Material Split, Cut or Torn 15
Obstruction of Flow 15
Crack 14
Defective Device 14
Moisture or Humidity Problem 14
Gas/Air Leak 13
Break 10
Loose or Intermittent Connection 9
Fitting Problem 7
Fracture 7
Gradient Increase 5
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 4
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 4
Difficult or Delayed Activation 4
Filtration Problem 4
Insufficient Information 4
Detachment of Device or Device Component 3

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: 6

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Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 64
AVANOS MEDICAL INC. 35
COVIDIEN 21

Event Locations

182 (44.3%)
I 137 (33.3%)
HOSPITAL 76 (18.5%)
INVALID DATA 5 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 4 (1.0%)
HOME 3 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.5%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs AVANOS MEDICAL INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Condenser, Heat And Moisture, 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 (411 here).

Manometer, Spinal-Fluid 411 Mass Spectrometry 410 System 412 Saliva, Artificial 409

Similar death-typed counts

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

Bariatric Bed 11 Circuit, Breathing 11 Heater 11 Hemostatic Metal Clip For The Gi Tract 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.