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Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube

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 Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#720 of 1000 · 822 reports · 1995–2026

  • BOOK 822 reports
  • RANK #720 of 1000
  • DEATH 21 death-typed
  • INJ 366 injury-typed
  • MALF 343 malfunction
  • SPAN 1995–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 67
  • PHOTO Instrument

Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Compression (0 report gap)

Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube sits #720 of 1000 among tracked device types with 822 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 sit below the device-type norm

Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube carries 41.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 23.1pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.0 pp)
  • INJ 44.5% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+14.2 pp)
  • MALF 41.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-23.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 42% of location-tagged rows .

Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube carries 822 MAUDE reports, ranked #720 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 366 (44.5%)
Malfunction 343 (41.7%)
Other 64 (7.8%)
28 (3.4%)
Death 21 (2.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 304 (34.9%)
276 (31.7%)
Other 185 (21.3%)
R 29 (3.3%)
Death 20 (2.3%)
Hospitalization 15 (1.7%)
Life Threatening 14 (1.6%)
O 9 (1.0%)
Disability 7 (0.8%)
L 6 (0.7%)
S 3 (0.3%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 103
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 91
Material Separation 64
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 56
Insufficient Device Problem Information 52
Loss of or Failure to Bond 43
Device Slipped 38
Detachment Of Device Component 35
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 29
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 21
Disconnection 18
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 18
Replace 18
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 17
Dislodged 17
Detachment of Device or Device Component 16
Use of Device Problem 16
Patient Device Interaction Problem 14
Normal 13
Loose 12

Yearly Trend

95
1995: 2
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 5
98
1998: 10
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 7
01
2001: 14
02
2002: 17
03
2003: 22
04
2004: 12
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 23
07
2007: 22
08
2008: 45
09
2009: 23
10
2010: 14
11
2011: 35
12
2012: 24
13
2013: 40
14
2014: 40
15
2015: 17
16
2016: 26
17
2017: 32
18
2018: 32
19
2019: 30
20
2020: 67
21
2021: 27
22
2022: 47
23
2023: 22
24
2024: 20
25
2025: 66
26
2026: 59

Reports rose to 66 in 2025, up from an average of 21 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 13

Event Locations

348 (42.3%)
HOSPITAL 325 (39.5%)
I 126 (15.3%)
NO INFORMATION 13 (1.6%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.4%)
OTHER 3 (0.4%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.2%)
HOME 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (822 here).

Instrument, Compression 822 Plate 824 Catheter 825 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyester 825

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (21 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus 21 Plate, Bone 21 Prosthesis 21 Accelerator, Linear, Medical 20

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube 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 Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube; 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.