Connector, Airway (Extension)
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 MAUDE casebook
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
- Injector
Injector, Fluid, Non-Electrically Powered
467 reports
- Microscope
Microscope, Surgical
465 reports
- Connector (this)
Connector, Airway (Extension)
463 reports
- Insufflator
Insufflator, Automatic Carbon-Dioxide For Endoscope
463 reports
- Urinometer
Urinometer, Electrical
463 reports
- Test
Test, Natriuretic Peptide
459 reports
What this shows Connector, Airway (Extension) carries 463 MAUDE reports, ranked #899 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
Related Entities for Connector, Airway (Extension)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
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.