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Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Simple, 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 MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#156 of 1000 · 16,522 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 16,522 reports
  • RANK #156 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 679 injury-typed
  • MALF 15,800 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,944
  • PHOTO Unit

Nearest event-volume peer: Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic (With Or Without Accessories) (7 report gap)

Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Simple, Powered) sits #156 of 1000 among tracked device types with 16,522 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 4.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-26.3 pp)
  • MALF 95.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+31.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO accounts for 20% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% 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 (Simple, Powered) carries 16,522 MAUDE reports, ranked #156 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 15,800 (95.6%)
Injury 679 (4.1%)
20 (0.1%)
Other 20 (0.1%)
Death 3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

15,504 (94.9%)
Other 408 (2.5%)
Required Intervention 318 (1.9%)
R 38 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 35 (0.2%)
O 12 (0.1%)
Disability 11 (0.1%)
Death 9 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)
S 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Overheating of Device 4,073
Fracture 2,148
Flaked 1,398
Break 887
Vibration 490
Detachment of Device or Device Component 386
Excessive Heating 262
No Apparent Adverse Event 250
Material Fragmentation 207
Noise, Audible 204
Disassembly 94
Material Twisted/Bent 91
Bent 86
Mechanical Problem 82
Device Remains Activated 70
Mechanical Jam 70
Naturally Worn 69
Fluid/Blood Leak 67
Physical Resistance/Sticking 65
Device Alarm System 55

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 1
97
1997: 5
00
2000: 36
01
2001: 252
02
2002: 31
03
2003: 18
04
2004: 24
05
2005: 34
06
2006: 12
07
2007: 14
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 242
10
2010: 492
11
2011: 1,013
12
2012: 1,146
13
2013: 1,583
14
2014: 559
15
2015: 483
16
2016: 849
17
2017: 848
18
2018: 787
19
2019: 836
20
2020: 1,025
21
2021: 1,047
22
2022: 900
23
2023: 948
24
2024: 1,153
25
2025: 1,944
26
2026: 225

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

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 2,891
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 2,467
MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS 2,115
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 2,025
DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS 2,003
MEDTRONIC XOMED INC. 1,409
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC 928
BIOMET MICROFIXATION 322

Event Locations

10,616 (64.3%)
I 5,485 (33.2%)
HOSPITAL 383 (2.3%)
NO INFORMATION 27 (0.2%)
OTHER 5 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP →

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 (16,522 here).

Unit, Electrosurgical, Endoscopic 16,529 Aligner, Sequential 16,486 Dc-Defibrillator, Low-Energy, 16,560 Catheter, Urological 16,473

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function 3 Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered 3 Bronchial Thermoplasty System 3 Bur, Ear, Nose And Throat 3

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.