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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4400 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Electrode, Electrosurgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#735 of 1000 · 798 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 798 reports
- RANK #735 of 1000
- DEATH 19 death-typed
- INJ 238 injury-typed
- MALF 477 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2005: 111
- PHOTO Enteroscope And Acces…
Nearest event-volume peer: Enteroscope And Accessories (2 report gap)
Electrode, Electrosurgical sits #735 of 1000 among tracked device types with 798 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Electrode, Electrosurgical carries 59.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 5.1pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.9 pp)
- INJ 29.8% corpus 30.3% · near corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
- MALF 59.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-5.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) is 18% 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
- Humidifier
Humidifier, Non-Direct Patient Interface (Home-Use)
801 reports
- Heparin
Heparin, Vascular Access Flush
800 reports
- Tray
Tray, Catheterization, Sterile Urethral, With Or Without Catheter (Kit)
800 reports
- Electrode (this)
Electrode, Electrosurgical
798 reports
- Enteroscope A…
Enteroscope And Accessories
796 reports
- Scissors
Scissors, General, Surgical
795 reports
What this shows Electrode, Electrosurgical carries 798 MAUDE reports, ranked #735 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
Reports in 2025 (6) held close to the prior two-year average of 6.
Related Entities for Electrode, Electrosurgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Electrode, Electrosurgical: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (798 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.