Electrode, Electrosurgical
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 Electrode, Electrosurgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#722 of 1000 · 790 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 790 reports
- RANK #722 of 1000
- DEATH 19 death-typed
- INJ 237 injury-typed
- MALF 470 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2005: 111
- PHOTO Catheter, Nephrostomy
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Nephrostomy (0 report gap)
Electrode, Electrosurgical sits #722 of 1000 among tracked device types with 790 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 2.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.9 pp)
- INJ 30.0% corpus 30.4% · near corpus mean (-0.4 pp)
- MALF 59.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-5.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON, INC. accounts for 25% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .
Electrode, Electrosurgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Intrasaccular…
Intrasaccular Flow Disruption Device
794 reports
- Electrode (this)
Electrode, Electrosurgical
790 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Nephrostomy
790 reports
- Electrocardio…
Electrocardiograph
788 reports
- Device
Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube
787 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed
787 reports
What this shows Electrode, Electrosurgical carries 790 MAUDE reports, ranked #722 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
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Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Electrode, Electrosurgical, 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 (790 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (19 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Electrode, Electrosurgical 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 Electrode, Electrosurgical; 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.