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Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered

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, Medical Examination, Ac Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#953 of 1000 · 398 reports · 1997–2025

  • BOOK 398 reports
  • RANK #953 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 32 injury-typed
  • MALF 352 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2025
  • PEAK 2023: 83
  • PHOTO Enteral Specific Tran…

Nearest event-volume peer: Enteral Specific Transition Connectors (0 report gap)

Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered sits #953 of 1000 among tracked device types with 398 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2025. 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 8.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-22.4 pp)
  • MALF 88.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET SAS accounts for 95% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .

Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered carries 398 MAUDE reports, ranked #953 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 352 (88.4%)
Injury 32 (8.0%)
Other 10 (2.5%)
4 (1.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

356 (88.3%)
Other 26 (6.5%)
Required Intervention 11 (2.7%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.7%)
S 2 (0.5%)
Disability 2 (0.5%)
L 1 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.2%)
R 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Detachment of Device or Device Component 165
Crack 89
Break 50
Fracture 15
Device Fell 11
Component Falling 6
Material Separation 6
Material Split, Cut or Torn 6
Detachment Of Device Component 5
Peeled/Delaminated 5
Component Missing 4
Installation-Related Problem 4
Sparking 4
Smoking 3
Unintended Movement 3
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2
Corroded 2
Environmental Compatibility Problem 2
Fire 2
Insufficient Information 2

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 2
98
1998: 2
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 10
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 12
07
2007: 10
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 6
12
2012: 8
13
2013: 2
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 3
16
2016: 13
17
2017: 10
18
2018: 6
19
2019: 27
20
2020: 47
21
2021: 21
22
2022: 70
23
2023: 83
24
2024: 20
25
2025: 9

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Top Manufacturers

MAQUET SAS 220
ALCON - IRVINE TECHNOLOGY CENTER 7
HILL-ROM, INC. 5

Event Locations

253 (63.6%)
I 113 (28.4%)
HOSPITAL 20 (5.0%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (1.8%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.8%)
OTHER 1 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.3%)

Compare MAQUET SAS vs ALCON - IRVINE TECHNOLOGY CENTER →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered, 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 (398 here).

Enteral Specific Transition Connectors 398 Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy System 397 Processor 400 Condom 402

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 Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered 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, Medical Examination, Ac Powered; 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.