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
- Crutch (this)
Crutch
363 reports
- Lens, Contact,
Lens, Contact, (Disposable)
363 reports
- Photometric M…
Photometric Method, Magnesium
363 reports
- System
System, Suction, Lipoplasty
363 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Neuromuscular, Lower Back Muscles, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief
362 reports
- Applier
Applier, Hemostatic Clip
361 reports
What this shows Crutch carries 363 MAUDE reports, ranked #978 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 Crutch
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.