Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation Accessories, Laparoscopic & Endoscopic, Reprocessed
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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#747 of 1000 · 772 reports · 2005–2026
- BOOK 772 reports
- RANK #747 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 131 injury-typed
- MALF 635 malfunction
- SPAN 2005–2026
- PEAK 2013: 161
- PHOTO Adhesive
Nearest event-volume peer: Adhesive, Denture, Polyvinyl Methylether Maleic Acid Calcium-Sodium Double Salt (1 report gap)
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation Accessories, Laparoscopic & Endoscopic, Reprocessed sits #747 of 1000 among tracked device types with 772 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. 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 → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Electrosurgical carries 82.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 17.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 17.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-13.3 pp)
- MALF 82.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+17.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Difficult to Open or Close is 15% of coded problems · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .
Electrosurgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Electrocautery
Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories)
777 reports
- Cleanser
Cleanser, Denture, Over The Counter
776 reports
- Adhesive
Adhesive, Denture, Polyvinyl Methylether Maleic Acid Calcium-Sodium Double Salt
773 reports
- Electrosurgic… (this)
Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation Accessories, Laparoscopic & Endoscopic, Reprocessed
772 reports
- Surgeon'S Glo…
Surgeon'S Gloves
770 reports
- Surgical Devi…
Surgical Device, For Cutting, Coagulation, And/Or Ablation Of Tissue, Including Cardiac Tissue
770 reports
What this shows Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation Accessories, Laparoscopic & Endoscopic, Reprocessed carries 772 MAUDE reports, ranked #747 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 fell to 38 in 2025, down from an average of 60 in the two years before.
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Event Locations
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 (772 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 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.