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Extractor

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Extractor LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#371 of 1000 · 3,381 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 3,381 reports
  • RANK #371 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 239 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,138 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 349
  • PHOTO Driver

Nearest event-volume peer: Driver, Wire, And Bone Drill, Manual (9 report gap)

Extractor sits #371 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,381 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 7.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.4 pp)
  • MALF 92.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+28.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Extractor in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Extractor carries 3,381 MAUDE reports, ranked #371 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 3,138 (92.8%)
Injury 239 (7.1%)
Other 3 (0.1%)
1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,977 (88.2%)
Required Intervention 207 (6.1%)
Other 133 (3.9%)
Hospitalization 29 (0.9%)
R 17 (0.5%)
O 3 (0.1%)
S 3 (0.1%)
H 2 (0.1%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 1,454
Device-Device Incompatibility 484
Material Deformation 257
Material Twisted/Bent 250
Naturally Worn 158
Fracture 140
Mechanical Jam 81
Crack 74
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 50
Bent 42
Material Integrity Problem 38
Material Fragmentation 32
No Apparent Adverse Event 26
Entrapment of Device 23
Scratched Material 20
Mechanical Problem 19
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 17
Corroded 17
Dull, Blunt 17
Physical Resistance/Sticking 15

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
96
1996: 12
97
1997: 13
98
1998: 16
99
1999: 4
01
2001: 2
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 9
08
2008: 37
09
2009: 60
10
2010: 19
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 9
13
2013: 106
14
2014: 71
15
2015: 78
16
2016: 162
17
2017: 239
18
2018: 286
19
2019: 320
20
2020: 302
21
2021: 322
22
2022: 319
23
2023: 349
24
2024: 285
25
2025: 291
26
2026: 44

Related Entities for Extractor

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US 839
DEPUY IRELAND - 9616671 630
SYNTHES GMBH 425
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. 1818910 164
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 131
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 127
ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. 122
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. 106
SYNTHES USA 63

Event Locations

1,750 (51.8%)
I 1,548 (45.8%)
HOSPITAL 72 (2.1%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.1%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US vs DEPUY IRELAND - 9616671 →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Extractor, 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 (3,381 here).

Driver, Wire, And Bone Drill, Manual 3,390 Control, Pump Speed, Cardiopulmonary Bypass 3,354 Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial 3,419 Heater 3,442

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Extractor 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 Extractor; 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.