2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic

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 III (highest risk, premarket approval required), regulated under 21 CFR §876.3350 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#89 of 1000 · 38,353 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 38,353 reports
  • RANK #89 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 34,812 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,379 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 1997: 4,323
  • PHOTO Filter

Nearest event-volume peer: Filter, Intravascular, Cardiovascular (33 report gap)

Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic sits #89 of 1000 among tracked device types with 38,353 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic carries 90.8% INJURY-coded reports, 60.5pp 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 90.8% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+60.5 pp)
  • MALF 8.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-56.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .

Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic carries 38,353 MAUDE reports, ranked #89 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 34,812 (90.8%)
Malfunction 3,379 (8.8%)
Other 112 (0.3%)
41 (0.1%)
Death 9 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Hospitalization 19,221 (31.4%)
R 18,501 (30.3%)
Required Intervention 12,241 (20.0%)
H 3,780 (6.2%)
3,341 (5.5%)
Other 3,093 (5.1%)
O 643 (1.1%)
Disability 245 (0.4%)
S 54 (0.1%)
Death 12 (0.0%)
L 9 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 6,152
Mechanical Problem 5,436
Inflation Problem 5,308
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 4,730
Material Puncture/Hole 3,360
Insufficient Device Problem Information 3,116
Explanted 3,071
Fracture 2,079
Migration 1,582
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 1,326
Break 1,000
Deflation Problem 973
Defective Device 937
Leak/Splash 868
Collapse 843
Malposition of Device 769
Malfunction 672
Pumping Problem 596
Degraded 511
Device Issue 367

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 11
94
1994: 58
95
1995: 87
96
1996: 1,839
97
1997: 4,323
98
1998: 258
99
1999: 88
00
2000: 311
01
2001: 569
02
2002: 400
03
2003: 582
04
2004: 476
05
2005: 427
06
2006: 259
07
2007: 11
08
2008: 16
09
2009: 15
10
2010: 14
11
2011: 11
12
2012: 11
13
2013: 19
14
2014: 27
15
2015: 9
16
2016: 7
17
2017: 512
18
2018: 1,677
19
2019: 4,010
20
2020: 3,562
21
2021: 3,718
22
2022: 3,202
23
2023: 3,674
24
2024: 4,077
25
2025: 2,575
26
2026: 1,518

Reports in 2025 (2,575) held close to the prior two-year average of 3,876.

Related Entities for Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic

Event Locations

18,701 (48.8%)
I 12,614 (32.9%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5,043 (13.1%)
OTHER 901 (2.3%)
HOSPITAL 649 (1.7%)
INVALID DATA 290 (0.8%)
HOME 74 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 48 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 18 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 12 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs COLOPLAST A/S →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic: 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 (38,353 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Device, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic 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, Impotence, Mechanical/Hydraulic; 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.