Cutter, Wire
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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §888.4540 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Cutter, Wire LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#881 of 1000 · 510 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 510 reports
- RANK #881 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 27 injury-typed
- MALF 477 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2013: 54
- PHOTO Tubing
Nearest event-volume peer: Tubing, Pressure And Accessories (0 report gap)
Cutter, Wire sits #881 of 1000 among tracked device types with 510 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Cutter, Wire carries 93.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 5.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.0 pp)
- MALF 93.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+28.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 58% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .
Cutter, Wire in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Test
Test, Qualitative, For Hla, Non-Diagnostic
511 reports
- Cutter, Wire (this)
Cutter, Wire
510 reports
- Tubing
Tubing, Pressure And Accessories
510 reports
- Infusor
Infusor, Pressure, For I.V. Bags
508 reports
- Laparoscopic…
Laparoscopic Accessories, Gynecologic
508 reports
- Stylet
Stylet, Tracheal Tube
506 reports
What this shows Cutter, Wire carries 510 MAUDE reports, ranked #881 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
Reports in 2025 (33) held close to the prior two-year average of 34.
Related Entities for Cutter, Wire
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Cutter, Wire carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (510 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 Cutter, Wire 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 Cutter, Wire; 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.