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Cutter, Wire

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 Cutter, Wire LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#864 of 1000 · 505 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 505 reports
  • RANK #864 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 27 injury-typed
  • MALF 472 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 54
  • PHOTO Electrode, Cutaneous

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrode, Cutaneous (0 report gap)

Cutter, Wire sits #864 of 1000 among tracked device types with 505 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 →

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 5.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-25.1 pp)
  • MALF 93.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 57% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Cutter, Wire in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Cutter, Wire carries 505 MAUDE reports, ranked #864 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 472 (93.5%)
Injury 27 (5.3%)
Other 4 (0.8%)
2 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

461 (90.2%)
Required Intervention 20 (3.9%)
Other 15 (2.9%)
R 7 (1.4%)
Hospitalization 6 (1.2%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 207
Material Integrity Problem 33
Fracture 25
Failure to Cut 15
Dull, Blunt 12
Material Fragmentation 10
Material Deformation 8
Crack 6
Material Twisted/Bent 6
Mechanical Problem 6
Corroded 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Component Missing 4
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 4
Device Inoperable 4
Device Slipped 3
Mechanical Jam 3
Naturally Worn 3
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 2
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 5
98
1998: 2
00
2000: 7
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 11
04
2004: 3
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 6
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 6
13
2013: 54
14
2014: 29
15
2015: 24
16
2016: 33
17
2017: 25
18
2018: 26
19
2019: 36
20
2020: 24
21
2021: 44
22
2022: 37
23
2023: 33
24
2024: 34
25
2025: 33
26
2026: 8

Related Entities for Cutter, Wire

Top Manufacturers

SYNTHES GMBH 185
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 48
ZIMMER, INC. 47
ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. 34
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 22
BIOMET MICROFIXATION 11
SYNTHES USA 9

Event Locations

259 (51.3%)
I 189 (37.4%)
HOSPITAL 53 (10.5%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.6%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cutter, Wire, 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 (505 here).

Electrode, Cutaneous 505 Total 505 Bur, Dental 504 Stylet, Tracheal Tube 504

Similar death-typed counts

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

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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.