2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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

#899 of 1000 · 463 reports · 1994–2025

  • BOOK 463 reports
  • RANK #899 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 46 injury-typed
  • MALF 397 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2025
  • PEAK 2012: 82
  • PHOTO Insufflator

Nearest event-volume peer: Insufflator, Automatic Carbon-Dioxide For Endoscope (0 report gap)

Connector, Airway (Extension) sits #899 of 1000 among tracked device types with 463 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2025. 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 1.9% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.4 pp)
  • INJ 9.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-20.5 pp)
  • MALF 85.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 13% 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 463 MAUDE reports, ranked #899 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 397 (85.7%)
Injury 46 (9.9%)
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.

342 (72.3%)
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

Material Split, Cut or Torn 29
Gas/Air Leak 28
Crack 23
Connection Problem 21
Break 19
Disconnection 17
Fracture 13
Material Separation 12
Material Puncture/Hole 11
Leak/Splash 9
Melted 8
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 6
Loose or Intermittent Connection 6
Defective Device 5
Degraded 4
Detachment of Device or Device Component 4
Hole In Material 4
Use of Device Problem 4
Component Incompatible 3
Failure to Disconnect 3

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

Related Entities for Connector, Airway (Extension)

Event Locations

308 (66.5%)
I 85 (18.4%)
HOSPITAL 61 (13.2%)
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 similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Connector, Airway, 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 (463 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

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.