2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Electrosurgical HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#36 of 1000 · 114,517 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 114,517 reports
  • RANK #36 of 1000
  • DEATH 456 death-typed
  • INJ 19,201 injury-typed
  • MALF 91,581 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 7,898
  • PHOTO Sensor

Nearest event-volume peer: Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated (10 report gap)

Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories sits #36 of 1000 among tracked device types with 114,517 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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
  • INJ 16.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-13.7 pp)
  • MALF 80.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+15.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER accounts for 25% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Electrosurgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories carries 114,517 MAUDE reports, ranked #36 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 91,581 (80.0%)
Injury 19,201 (16.8%)
Other 2,637 (2.3%)
641 (0.6%)
Death 456 (0.4%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

89,990 (76.6%)
Other 12,440 (10.6%)
Required Intervention 9,229 (7.9%)
R 1,901 (1.6%)
Hospitalization 1,708 (1.5%)
O 659 (0.6%)
Death 438 (0.4%)
H 306 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 301 (0.3%)
Disability 260 (0.2%)
L 160 (0.1%)
S 102 (0.1%)
D 32 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 17 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 8 (0.0%)
Not Applicable 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 10,623
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 6,528
Energy Output Problem 3,988
Detachment of Device or Device Component 3,817
Difficult to Open or Close 3,330
Peeled/Delaminated 2,701
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 2,529
Output Problem 1,641
Self-Activation or Keying 1,497
Insufficient Information 1,468
Device Displays Incorrect Message 1,277
Sparking 1,154
Material Separation 1,140
Failure to Deliver Energy 1,124
Material Twisted/Bent 1,089
Communication or Transmission Problem 1,085
Mechanical Problem 1,063
Detachment Of Device Component 1,033
Fire 1,031
Retraction Problem 1,026

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 19
93
1993: 28
94
1994: 94
95
1995: 103
96
1996: 355
97
1997: 708
98
1998: 551
99
1999: 569
00
2000: 603
01
2001: 603
02
2002: 731
03
2003: 1,046
04
2004: 1,208
05
2005: 1,130
06
2006: 1,843
07
2007: 2,795
08
2008: 2,555
09
2009: 3,591
10
2010: 3,375
11
2011: 4,462
12
2012: 5,216
13
2013: 4,897
14
2014: 4,908
15
2015: 4,936
16
2016: 5,616
17
2017: 6,073
18
2018: 6,545
19
2019: 7,067
20
2020: 6,491
21
2021: 6,354
22
2022: 6,103
23
2023: 7,176
24
2024: 7,898
25
2025: 7,694
26
2026: 1,174

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Event Locations

62,257 (54.4%)
I 36,743 (32.1%)
HOSPITAL 9,078 (7.9%)
OTHER 2,757 (2.4%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1,514 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 1,119 (1.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 377 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 294 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 201 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 113 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 40 (0.0%)
HOME 16 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 3 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 2 (0.0%)

Compare COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for 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 (114,517 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (456 here), distinct from the volume row.

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.