Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories
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 Electrosurgical HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE
#35 of 1000 · 117,697 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 117,697 reports
- RANK #35 of 1000
- DEATH 467 death-typed
- INJ 19,658 injury-typed
- MALF 94,288 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2024: 7,898
- PHOTO Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Breast, Inflatable, Internal, Saline (79 report gap)
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories sits #35 of 1000 among tracked device types with 117,697 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 run above the device-type norm
Electrosurgical carries 80.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 15.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
- INJ 16.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-13.6 pp)
- MALF 80.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+15.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER accounts for 24% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Electrosurgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Coronary Drug…
Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent
128,715 reports
- Device
Device, Hemostasis, Vascular
123,919 reports
- Electrosurgic… (this)
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories
117,697 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Breast, Inflatable, Internal, Saline
117,618 reports
- Sensor
Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated
117,148 reports
- Pump
Pump, Infusion, Implanted, Programmable
116,799 reports
What this shows Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories carries 117,697 MAUDE reports, ranked #35 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 (7,696) held close to the prior two-year average of 7,537.
Related Entities for Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for 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 (117,697 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (467 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for 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 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.