What are FDA adverse event reports for Continuous Measurement Thermometer?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Continuous Measurement Thermometer, there are 1,271 total reports including 13 death reports and 171 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Continuous Measurement Thermometer?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Continuous Measurement Thermometer

Name: Continuous Measurement Thermometer - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Continuous Measurement Thermometer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#591 of 1000 · 1,271 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 1,271 reports
RANK #591 of 1000
DEATH 13 death-typed
INJ 171 injury-typed
MALF 935 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2022: 142
PHOTO Agent

Nearest event-volume peer: Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent (0 report gap)

Continuous Measurement Thermometer sits #591 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,271 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
INJ 13.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-17.0 pp)
MALF 73.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+9.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Excessive Heating is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Disinfector

1,272
Continuous Me… (this)

1,271
Agent

1,271
Solid State X…

1,271
Bone Mill

1,269
Dressing

1,269

What this shows Continuous Measurement Thermometer carries 1,271 MAUDE reports, ranked #591 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 935 (73.6%)

Injury 171 (13.5%)

Other 114 (9.0%)

37 (2.9%)

Death 13 (1.0%)

No answer provided 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

698 (46.2%)

Other 377 (25.0%)

R 161 (10.7%)

Hospitalization 85 (5.6%)

Required Intervention 78 (5.2%)

O 68 (4.5%)

Death 13 (0.9%)

Life Threatening 11 (0.7%)

H 9 (0.6%)

Disability 4 (0.3%)

S 3 (0.2%)

L 1 (0.1%)

Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)

Invalid Data 1 (0.1%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 5

1993: 2

1994: 5

1995: 7

1996: 10

1997: 30

1998: 29

1999: 16

2000: 9

2001: 9

2002: 14

2003: 5

2004: 4

2005: 6

2006: 20

2007: 4

2008: 13

2009: 9

2010: 9

2011: 18

2012: 26

2013: 16

2014: 54

2015: 53

2016: 58

2017: 118

2018: 51

2019: 52

2020: 53

2021: 115

2022: 142

2023: 101

2024: 118

2025: 76

2026: 14

Top Manufacturers

COVIDIEN 21

Event Locations

659 (51.8%)

I 293 (23.1%)

HOSPITAL 168 (13.2%)

NO INFORMATION 59 (4.6%)

HOME 53 (4.2%)

INVALID DATA 12 (0.9%)

UNKNOWN 11 (0.9%)

OTHER 8 (0.6%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.2%)

NURSING HOME 2 (0.2%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.2%)

NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.1%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Continuous Measurement Thermometer, 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 (1,271 here).

Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent 1,271 Solid State X-Ray Imager 1,271 Disinfector, Medical Devices 1,272 Bone Mill 1,269

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus 13 Chair, With Casters 13 Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit 13 Instrument, Coagulation, Automated 13

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Continuous Measurement Thermometer 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 Continuous Measurement Thermometer; 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.

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Event-type mix vs corpus