Driver, Prosthesis
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 Driver, Prosthesis LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#222 of 1000 · 9,136 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 9,136 reports
- RANK #222 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 225 injury-typed
- MALF 8,908 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2023: 1,280
- PHOTO Negative Pressure Wou…
Nearest event-volume peer: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Powered Suction Pump (12 report gap)
Driver, Prosthesis sits #222 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,136 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 2.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.0 pp)
- MALF 97.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+33.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SPINE INC accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .
Driver, Prosthesis in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Driver (this)
Driver, Prosthesis
9,136 reports
- Negative Pres…
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Powered Suction Pump
9,124 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
8,981 reports
- Controller
Controller, Temperature, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
8,893 reports
- Intervertebra…
Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft, Lumbar
8,876 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Retention Type, Balloon
8,858 reports
What this shows Driver, Prosthesis carries 9,136 MAUDE reports, ranked #222 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 Driver, Prosthesis
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Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Driver, Prosthesis, 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 (9,136 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Driver, Prosthesis 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 Driver, Prosthesis; 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.