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Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery

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, General & Plastic Surgery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#786 of 1000 · 673 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 673 reports
  • RANK #786 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 121 injury-typed
  • MALF 465 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2006: 53
  • PHOTO Hearing Aid

Nearest event-volume peer: Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription (0 report gap)

Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery sits #786 of 1000 among tracked device types with 673 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 →

Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm

Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery carries 18.0% INJURY-coded reports, 12.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
  • INJ 18.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-12.3 pp)
  • MALF 69.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+4.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 41% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 46% of location-tagged rows .

Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery carries 673 MAUDE reports, ranked #786 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 465 (69.1%)
Injury 121 (18.0%)
Other 65 (9.7%)
19 (2.8%)
Death 3 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

424 (61.2%)
Other 150 (21.6%)
Required Intervention 80 (11.5%)
R 16 (2.3%)
Hospitalization 14 (2.0%)
Death 3 (0.4%)
H 2 (0.3%)
O 2 (0.3%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 311
Detachment Of Device Component 72
Tip breakage 70
Device, or device fragments remain in patient 41
Material Separation 38
Component(s), broken 27
Difficult to Remove 23
Material Fragmentation 19
Component Missing 18
Replace 18
Component Falling 14
Device, removal of (non-implant) 14
Difficult to Open or Close 13
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 13
Sticking 12
Device Issue 11
Detachment of Device or Device Component 10
Device Or Device Fragments Location Unknown 10
Bent 8
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 9
94
1994: 17
95
1995: 15
96
1996: 20
97
1997: 28
98
1998: 14
99
1999: 15
00
2000: 7
01
2001: 10
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 21
04
2004: 20
05
2005: 25
06
2006: 53
07
2007: 26
08
2008: 15
09
2009: 22
10
2010: 21
11
2011: 16
12
2012: 18
13
2013: 24
14
2014: 23
15
2015: 27
16
2016: 19
17
2017: 34
18
2018: 16
19
2019: 18
20
2020: 6
21
2021: 20
22
2022: 18
23
2023: 25
24
2024: 20
25
2025: 30
26
2026: 12

Reports in 2025 (30) held close to the prior two-year average of 23.

Related Entities for Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE 32
CAREFUSION 14
GYRUS ACMI, INC. 14
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US 13

Event Locations

311 (46.2%)
HOSPITAL 213 (31.6%)
I 93 (13.8%)
INVALID DATA 19 (2.8%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (2.5%)
OTHER 8 (1.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 6 (0.9%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.6%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER ENDOSCOPY-SAN JOSE vs CAREFUSION →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery: 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 (673 here).

Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription 673 Hearing Aid 673 Hip Prosthesis 673 Camera, Surgical And Accessories 672

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function 3 Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered 3 Bronchial Thermoplasty System 3 Bur, Ear, Nose And Throat 3

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Forceps, General & Plastic Surgery 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, General & Plastic Surgery; 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.