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Forceps

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 Forceps LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#465 of 1000 · 2,139 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,139 reports
  • RANK #465 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 172 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,939 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 245
  • PHOTO Choledochoscope And A…

Nearest event-volume peer: Choledochoscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid (2 report gap)

Forceps sits #465 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,139 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 8.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-22.4 pp)
  • MALF 90.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+26.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 65% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Forceps in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Forceps carries 2,139 MAUDE reports, ranked #465 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,939 (90.6%)
Injury 172 (8.0%)
Other 20 (0.9%)
7 (0.3%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,879 (86.6%)
Other 111 (5.1%)
Required Intervention 95 (4.4%)
Hospitalization 40 (1.8%)
R 35 (1.6%)
Disability 4 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 981
Device-Device Incompatibility 108
Material Integrity Problem 89
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 84
Material Fragmentation 45
Mechanical Problem 30
Material Twisted/Bent 27
Material Deformation 20
Component Missing 16
Use of Device Problem 15
Compatibility Problem 14
Fracture 14
Difficult to Open or Close 13
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 12
Failure To Adhere Or Bond 11
Detachment of Device or Device Component 10
Crack 9
Mechanical Jam 8
Device Slipped 7
Corroded 6

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 12
93
1993: 6
94
1994: 24
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 1
99
1999: 4
00
2000: 4
01
2001: 3
03
2003: 4
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 12
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 15
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 24
10
2010: 18
11
2011: 28
12
2012: 34
13
2013: 245
14
2014: 104
15
2015: 109
16
2016: 232
17
2017: 99
18
2018: 97
19
2019: 132
20
2020: 128
21
2021: 156
22
2022: 147
23
2023: 155
24
2024: 176
25
2025: 123
26
2026: 25

Related Entities for Forceps

Top Manufacturers

SYNTHES GMBH 783
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 371
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 79
SYNTHES USA 64
SYNTHES MONUMENT 38
AESCULAP AG 33

Event Locations

1,150 (53.8%)
I 848 (39.6%)
HOSPITAL 102 (4.8%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (0.8%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.4%)
OTHER 8 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Forceps, 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 (2,139 here).

Choledochoscope And Accessories 2,137 Posterior Cervical Screw System 2,137 Calculator/Data Processing Module 2,135 Bottle, Collection, Vacuum 2,119

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Forceps 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 Forceps; 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.