Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#108 of 1000 · 29,022 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 29,022 reports
- RANK #108 of 1000
- DEATH 4 death-typed
- INJ 279 injury-typed
- MALF 28,700 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2013: 3,231
- PHOTO Reamer
Nearest event-volume peer: Reamer (49 report gap)
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece sits #108 of 1000 among tracked device types with 29,022 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 1.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.5 pp)
- MALF 98.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO accounts for 36% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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29,993 reports
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29,071 reports
- Drill (this)
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
29,022 reports
- Motor
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28,183 reports
What this shows Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece carries 29,022 MAUDE reports, ranked #108 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
Related Entities for Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece, 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 (29,022 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece 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 Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece; 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.