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Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Compound, 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 Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#421 of 1000 · 2,698 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,698 reports
  • RANK #421 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 1,333 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,315 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 324
  • PHOTO Vehicle

Nearest event-volume peer: Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled (1 report gap)

Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Compound, Powered) sits #421 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,698 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 →

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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 49.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+19.0 pp)
  • MALF 48.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-15.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Auto Stop is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CODMAN & SHURTLEFF, INC. accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Compound, Powered) carries 2,698 MAUDE reports, ranked #421 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,333 (49.4%)
Malfunction 1,315 (48.7%)
Other 36 (1.3%)
12 (0.4%)
Death 2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,504 (55.8%)
Other 583 (21.6%)
Required Intervention 567 (21.0%)
R 14 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 10 (0.4%)
O 5 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.2%)
Death 4 (0.1%)
Disability 3 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Auto Stop 529
Device Remains Activated 383
Fail-Safe Did Not Operate 201
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 166
Mechanical Problem 74
Break 63
Dull, Blunt 46
Material Separation 39
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 28
Fracture 24
Use of Device Problem 24
Detachment of Device or Device Component 23
Insufficient Information 16
No Apparent Adverse Event 12
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 10
Failure to Shut Off 10
Difficult to Remove 8
Entrapment of Device 8
Material Fragmentation 7
Activation Problem 6

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 3
94
1994: 1
95
1995: 12
96
1996: 38
97
1997: 34
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 21
00
2000: 17
01
2001: 31
02
2002: 51
03
2003: 57
04
2004: 78
05
2005: 47
06
2006: 16
07
2007: 25
08
2008: 41
09
2009: 34
10
2010: 73
11
2011: 39
12
2012: 79
13
2013: 103
14
2014: 95
15
2015: 59
16
2016: 76
17
2017: 106
18
2018: 136
19
2019: 208
20
2020: 324
21
2021: 309
22
2022: 148
23
2023: 108
24
2024: 183
25
2025: 115
26
2026: 16

Related Entities for Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Compound, Powered)

Top Manufacturers

CODMAN & SHURTLEFF, INC. 596
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 216
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 108
THE ANSPACH EFFORT, INC. 50

Event Locations

1,352 (50.1%)
I 1,075 (39.8%)
HOSPITAL 203 (7.5%)
INVALID DATA 41 (1.5%)
NO INFORMATION 18 (0.7%)
OTHER 4 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 3 (0.1%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare CODMAN & SHURTLEFF, INC. vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories, 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 (2,698 here).

Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled 2,699 Forceps, Biopsy, Non-Electric 2,688 Catheter And Tip, Suction 2,683 Nebulizer 2,671

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Analyzer, Chemistry Clinical Use 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories 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 Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories; 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.