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Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable

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 Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#938 of 1000 · 414 reports · 1991–2026

  • BOOK 414 reports
  • RANK #938 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 40 injury-typed
  • MALF 364 malfunction
  • SPAN 1991–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 133
  • PHOTO Burr, Orthopedic

Nearest event-volume peer: Burr, Orthopedic (0 report gap)

Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable sits #938 of 1000 among tracked device types with 414 MAUDE reports spanning 1991–2026. 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 2.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
  • INJ 9.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-20.8 pp)
  • MALF 87.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Gas/Air Leak is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HAMILTON MEDICAL AG accounts for 84% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 84% of location-tagged rows .

Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable carries 414 MAUDE reports, ranked #938 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 364 (87.9%)
Injury 40 (9.7%)
Death 9 (2.2%)
1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

343 (81.3%)
Required Intervention 29 (6.9%)
Other 21 (5.0%)
Death 9 (2.1%)
Hospitalization 7 (1.7%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.9%)
L 3 (0.7%)
R 3 (0.7%)
H 1 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Gas/Air Leak 132
Unable to Obtain Readings 33
Loose or Intermittent Connection 22
Break 18
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 12
Insufficient Information 9
Pressure Problem 5
Charging Problem 3
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 3
Inflation Problem 3
Material Deformation 3
Mechanical Jam 3
No Audible Alarm 3
Component Missing 2
Connection Problem 2
Deflation Problem 2
Gas Output Problem 2
Human-Device Interface Problem 2
Infusion or Flow Problem 2
No Device Output 2

Yearly Trend

91
1991: 2
92
1992: 24
93
1993: 10
94
1994: 6
95
1995: 2
05
2005: 1
06
2006: 1
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 5
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 62
13
2013: 16
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 1
16
2016: 1
17
2017: 3
18
2018: 4
19
2019: 2
20
2020: 1
21
2021: 9
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 51
24
2024: 133
25
2025: 46
26
2026: 5

Related Entities for Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable

Top Manufacturers

HAMILTON MEDICAL AG 206
PLEXUS MANUFACTURING SDN. BHD. 23
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 12
SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 5

Event Locations

346 (83.6%)
HOSPITAL 43 (10.4%)
I 16 (3.9%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.5%)
OTHER 2 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.5%)
HOME 1 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 1 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)

Compare HAMILTON MEDICAL AG vs PLEXUS MANUFACTURING SDN. BHD. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable, 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 (414 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

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

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable 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 Cuff, Tracheal Tube, Inflatable; 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.