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Forceps, Biopsy, Electric

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, Biopsy, Electric LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#930 of 1000 · 425 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 425 reports
  • RANK #930 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 85 injury-typed
  • MALF 335 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 75
  • PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed (1 report gap)

Forceps, Biopsy, Electric sits #930 of 1000 among tracked device types with 425 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 20.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-10.4 pp)
  • MALF 78.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+14.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 28% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .

Forceps, Biopsy, Electric in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Forceps, Biopsy, Electric carries 425 MAUDE reports, ranked #930 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 335 (78.8%)
Injury 85 (20.0%)
Other 3 (0.7%)
2 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

328 (74.9%)
Required Intervention 42 (9.6%)
Other 34 (7.8%)
Hospitalization 19 (4.3%)
R 9 (2.1%)
O 4 (0.9%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 27
Unintended Movement 16
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 13
Failure to Align 11
Difficult to Open or Close 8
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 7
Illegible Information 7
Break 6
Energy Output Problem 6
Material Twisted/Bent 4
Dull, Blunt 3
Failure to Power Up 3
Insufficient Heating 3
Material Separation 3
Mechanical Jam 3
Mechanical Problem 3
Use of Device Problem 3
Bent 2
Communication or Transmission Problem 2
Complete Loss of Power 2

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 2
96
1996: 1
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 4
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 5
05
2005: 6
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 15
09
2009: 75
10
2010: 29
11
2011: 51
12
2012: 30
13
2013: 14
14
2014: 12
15
2015: 15
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 26
18
2018: 26
19
2019: 15
20
2020: 7
21
2021: 24
22
2022: 16
23
2023: 8
24
2024: 9
25
2025: 10
26
2026: 1

Related Entities for Forceps, Biopsy, Electric

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 79
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) 63
HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE 48
COOK ENDOSCOPY 35
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. 24
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 10
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP 10
WILSON-COOK MEDICAL, INC. 10

Event Locations

284 (66.8%)
I 75 (17.6%)
HOSPITAL 49 (11.5%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (2.8%)
OTHER 2 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Forceps, Biopsy, Electric, 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 (425 here).

Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed 426 Patient Bed With Canopy/Restraints 424 Resectoscope, Working Element 426 Laparoscope 427

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 Forceps, Biopsy, Electric 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, Biopsy, Electric; 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.