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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

#947 of 1000 · 429 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 429 reports
  • RANK #947 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 87 injury-typed
  • MALF 337 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 75
  • PHOTO Generator

Nearest event-volume peer: Generator, Pulsatile Flow, Cardiopulmonary Bypass (1 report gap)

Forceps, Biopsy, Electric sits #947 of 1000 among tracked device types with 429 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Forceps, Biopsy, Electric carries 78.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 13.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 20.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-10.0 pp)
  • MALF 78.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+13.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 12% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 27% 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 429 MAUDE reports, ranked #947 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 337 (78.6%)
Injury 87 (20.3%)
Other 3 (0.7%)
2 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

330 (74.7%)
Required Intervention 44 (10.0%)
Other 34 (7.7%)
Hospitalization 19 (4.3%)
R 9 (2.0%)
O 4 (0.9%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 40
Foreign material 36
Failure to Deliver Energy 34
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 31
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 27
Unintended Movement 17
Cautery 16
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 15
Bent 14
Failure to Align 13
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 13
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 11
Difficult to Open or Close 10
Energy Output Problem 10
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 10
Detachment Of Device Component 9
Loose or Intermittent Connection 9
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 8
Illegible Information 7
Replace 7

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: 5

Reports in 2025 (10) held close to the prior two-year average of 9.

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
AOMORI OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 9

Event Locations

289 (67.4%)
I 74 (17.2%)
HOSPITAL 49 (11.4%)
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 a comparable report-volume footprint

Forceps, Biopsy, Electric carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (429 here).

Generator 428 System 431 Platelet And Plasma Separator For Bone Graf… 432 Stand, Infusion 432

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.