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Gas-Machine, Anesthesia

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 Gas-Machine, Anesthesia MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#74 of 1000 · 44,393 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 44,393 reports
  • RANK #74 of 1000
  • DEATH 107 death-typed
  • INJ 682 injury-typed
  • MALF 43,409 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 9,366
  • PHOTO Stimulator

Nearest event-volume peer: Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief) (564 report gap)

Gas-Machine, Anesthesia sits #74 of 1000 among tracked device types with 44,393 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 1.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.9 pp)
  • MALF 97.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+33.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. accounts for 75% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Gas-Machine, Anesthesia in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Gas-Machine, Anesthesia carries 44,393 MAUDE reports, ranked #74 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 43,409 (97.8%)
Injury 682 (1.5%)
Other 121 (0.3%)
Death 107 (0.2%)
74 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

43,160 (97.1%)
Other 459 (1.0%)
Required Intervention 322 (0.7%)
Life Threatening 181 (0.4%)
Death 108 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 64 (0.1%)
R 42 (0.1%)
Disability 33 (0.1%)
S 24 (0.1%)
L 22 (0.0%)
O 9 (0.0%)
H 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 6,545
Mechanical Problem 4,457
Failure to Run on Battery 3,550
No Flow 3,454
Insufficient Flow or Under Infusion 2,171
No Display/Image 1,682
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1,482
Power Problem 1,393
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 1,307
Output Problem 1,233
Gas/Air Leak 1,230
Failure to Deliver 1,229
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 1,151
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 1,065
Gas Output Problem 1,000
Increase in Pressure 924
Unexpected Shutdown 872
Infusion or Flow Problem 756
Device Alarm System 635
Leak/Splash 613

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
93
1993: 5
94
1994: 8
95
1995: 13
96
1996: 15
97
1997: 28
98
1998: 27
99
1999: 45
00
2000: 141
01
2001: 116
02
2002: 99
03
2003: 149
04
2004: 147
05
2005: 159
06
2006: 107
07
2007: 132
08
2008: 104
09
2009: 85
10
2010: 97
11
2011: 87
12
2012: 89
13
2013: 308
14
2014: 279
15
2015: 572
16
2016: 2,135
17
2017: 2,355
18
2018: 2,589
19
2019: 1,957
20
2020: 2,687
21
2021: 3,123
22
2022: 4,352
23
2023: 5,595
24
2024: 6,067
25
2025: 9,366
26
2026: 1,352

Related Entities for Gas-Machine, Anesthesia

Top Manufacturers

DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. 28,947
GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CHINA) CO., LTD (WUXI) 8,482
MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB 1,391

Event Locations

28,802 (64.9%)
I 14,072 (31.7%)
HOSPITAL 1,271 (2.9%)
NO INFORMATION 187 (0.4%)
UNKNOWN 18 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 14 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 10 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 8 (0.0%)
OTHER 7 (0.0%)
HOME 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

Compare DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. vs GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CHINA) CO., LTD (WUXI) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Gas-Machine, Anesthesia, 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 (44,393 here).

Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted 43,829 Ventilator 45,754 Catheters 42,925 Powered Laser Surgical Instrument 42,730

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (107 here), distinct from the volume row.

Prosthesis, Tracheal, Expandable 107 Separator 105 Temporary Carotid Catheter For Embolic Capt… 109 Absorbable Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent 110

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Gas-Machine, Anesthesia 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 Gas-Machine, Anesthesia; 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.