2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Crutch

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 Crutch LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#978 of 1000 · 363 reports · 1992–2025

  • BOOK 363 reports
  • RANK #978 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 89 injury-typed
  • MALF 71 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2025
  • PEAK 2013: 64
  • PHOTO Lens, Contact,

Nearest event-volume peer: Lens, Contact, (Disposable) (0 report gap)

Crutch sits #978 of 1000 among tracked device types with 363 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2025. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 24.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-5.9 pp)
  • MALF 19.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-44.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 40% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Crutch in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Crutch carries 363 MAUDE reports, ranked #978 of 1000.

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

Event Types

127 (35.0%)
Injury 89 (24.5%)
Other 76 (20.9%)
Malfunction 71 (19.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 236 (62.8%)
58 (15.4%)
Required Intervention 58 (15.4%)
Hospitalization 10 (2.7%)
R 9 (2.4%)
O 3 (0.8%)
Disability 2 (0.5%)

Top Product Problems

Break 20
Collapse 3
Material Integrity Problem 3
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Defective Device 2
Detachment of Device or Device Component 2
Device Fell 2
Disassembly 2
Insufficient Information 2
Loose or Intermittent Connection 2
Defective Component 1
Degraded 1
Device Issue 1
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1
Device Slipped 1
Fail-Safe Problem 1
Fracture 1
Material Split, Cut or Torn 1
Material Twisted/Bent 1
Naturally Worn 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 27
98
1998: 25
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 6
01
2001: 13
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 2
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 6
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 34
13
2013: 64
14
2014: 53
15
2015: 12
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 4
19
2019: 4
20
2020: 5
21
2021: 3
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 7
24
2024: 3
25
2025: 6

Related Entities for Crutch

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 54

Event Locations

214 (59.0%)
HOME 60 (16.5%)
OTHER 24 (6.6%)
HOSPITAL 23 (6.3%)
INVALID DATA 16 (4.4%)
I 12 (3.3%)
UNKNOWN 6 (1.7%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (1.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.8%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Crutch, 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 (363 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Crutch 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 Crutch; 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.