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Connector, Airway (Extension)

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 Connector, Airway LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#921 of 1000 · 466 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 466 reports
  • RANK #921 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 47 injury-typed
  • MALF 399 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2012: 82
  • PHOTO Infant Heel Warmer

Nearest event-volume peer: Infant Heel Warmer (Chemical Heat Pack) (0 report gap)

Connector, Airway (Extension) sits #921 of 1000 among tracked device types with 466 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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

Connector, Airway carries 85.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.9% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.4 pp)
  • INJ 10.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.2 pp)
  • MALF 85.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Disconnection is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CAREFUSION accounts for 46% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .

Connector, Airway in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Connector, Airway (Extension) carries 466 MAUDE reports, ranked #921 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 399 (85.6%)
Injury 47 (10.1%)
Death 9 (1.9%)
Other 6 (1.3%)
5 (1.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

345 (72.5%)
Other 55 (11.6%)
Required Intervention 46 (9.7%)
Death 9 (1.9%)
Life Threatening 8 (1.7%)
R 5 (1.1%)
L 2 (0.4%)
Disability 2 (0.4%)
H 1 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.2%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Disconnection 70
Break 41
Crack 41
Occlusion Within Device 31
Gas/Air Leak 29
Material Split, Cut or Torn 29
Connection Problem 28
Fitting Problem 28
Detachment Of Device Component 25
Material Separation 25
Loose or Intermittent Connection 24
Melted 22
Air Leak 20
Device Slipped 17
Leak/Splash 14
Fracture 13
Material Puncture/Hole 11
Replace 9
Defective Device 7
Material Integrity Problem 7

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
95
1995: 4
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 11
98
1998: 29
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 1
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 12
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 13
07
2007: 8
08
2008: 9
09
2009: 17
10
2010: 9
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 82
13
2013: 11
14
2014: 17
15
2015: 21
16
2016: 5
17
2017: 19
18
2018: 15
19
2019: 13
20
2020: 21
21
2021: 15
22
2022: 21
23
2023: 38
24
2024: 28
25
2025: 25
26
2026: 3

Reports in 2025 (25) held close to the prior two-year average of 33.

Related Entities for Connector, Airway (Extension)

Top Manufacturers

CAREFUSION 94
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 67
FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LTD 19
SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 18
TERUMO CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CORP. 6

Event Locations

314 (67.4%)
I 82 (17.6%)
HOSPITAL 61 (13.1%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.9%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.4%)
HOME 1 (0.2%)
PATIENT'S ROOM OR WARD 1 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Compare CAREFUSION vs TELEFLEX MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Connector, Airway: 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 (466 here).

Infant Heel Warmer 466 Injector, Fluid, Non-Electrically Powered 467 Test, Natriuretic Peptide 467 Clip, Hemostatic 468

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (9 here), distinct from the volume row.

Blood Establishment Computer Software And A… 9 Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic 9 Choledochoscope And Accessories 9 Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable 9

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Connector, Airway 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 Connector, Airway; 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.