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
- Device
Device, Hemostasis, Vascular
121,291 reports
- System
System, Surgical, Computer Controlled Instrument
118,454 reports
- Sensor
Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated
114,527 reports
- Electrosurgic… (this)
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories
114,517 reports
- Pump
Pump, Infusion, Implanted, Programmable
114,088 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Breast, Inflatable, Internal, Saline
113,497 reports
What this shows Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories carries 114,517 MAUDE reports, ranked #36 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
Related Entities for Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
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.