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Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories)

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 Electrocautery, Gynecologic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#734 of 1000 · 765 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 765 reports
  • RANK #734 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 56 injury-typed
  • MALF 701 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 127
  • PHOTO Incubator, Neonatal

Nearest event-volume peer: Incubator, Neonatal (1 report gap)

Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories) sits #734 of 1000 among tracked device types with 765 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 7.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.1 pp)
  • MALF 91.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+27.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Electrical /Electronic Property Problem is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AESCULAP AG accounts for 29% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .

Electrocautery, Gynecologic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories) carries 765 MAUDE reports, ranked #734 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 701 (91.6%)
Injury 56 (7.3%)
Other 6 (0.8%)
2 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 465 (58.3%)
235 (29.5%)
Required Intervention 56 (7.0%)
R 16 (2.0%)
O 12 (1.5%)
Hospitalization 4 (0.5%)
Disability 3 (0.4%)
H 2 (0.3%)
Death 2 (0.3%)
C 1 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 88
Break 74
Output Problem 66
Failure to Cut 49
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 47
Mechanical Problem 34
Melted 28
Defective Component 23
Detachment of Device or Device Component 23
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 19
Nonstandard Device 19
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 18
Material Fragmentation 18
Power Problem 18
Sparking 16
Energy Output Problem 15
Electrical Power Problem 14
Defective Device 13
Insufficient Information 13
Loss of Power 12

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
94
1994: 1
97
1997: 2
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 6
05
2005: 2
08
2008: 1
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 2
13
2013: 6
14
2014: 1
15
2015: 27
16
2016: 56
17
2017: 33
18
2018: 30
19
2019: 127
20
2020: 102
21
2021: 100
22
2022: 104
23
2023: 61
24
2024: 44
25
2025: 41
26
2026: 4

Related Entities for Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories)

Top Manufacturers

AESCULAP AG 23
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC 22
COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER 20
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 10
COVIDIEN LP 4

Event Locations

438 (57.3%)
I 240 (31.4%)
HOSPITAL 46 (6.0%)
NO INFORMATION 33 (4.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare AESCULAP AG vs ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Electrocautery, Gynecologic, 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 (765 here).

Incubator, Neonatal 764 Electrosurgical 763 Table, Radiographic, Tilting 762 Tray 762

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 Electrocautery, Gynecologic 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 Electrocautery, Gynecologic; 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.