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Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On Detached Retina

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On… LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#877 of 1000 · 493 reports · 1997–2025

  • BOOK 493 reports
  • RANK #877 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 269 injury-typed
  • MALF 206 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2025
  • PEAK 2022: 97
  • PHOTO Stimulator

Nearest event-volume peer: Stimulator, Nerve, Transcutaneous, For Pain Relief (0 report gap)

Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On Detached Retina sits #877 of 1000 among tracked device types with 493 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2025. 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 54.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+24.1 pp)
  • MALF 41.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-22.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON LABORATORIES, INC. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 72% of location-tagged rows .

Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On… in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On Detached Retina carries 493 MAUDE reports, ranked #877 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 269 (54.6%)
Malfunction 206 (41.8%)
Other 18 (3.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 173 (29.1%)
165 (27.8%)
Required Intervention 131 (22.1%)
R 54 (9.1%)
O 38 (6.4%)
Disability 17 (2.9%)
Hospitalization 7 (1.2%)
S 6 (1.0%)
H 3 (0.5%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 142
Gas Output Problem 40
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 21
Failure to Deliver 20
No Flow 16
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 13
Gas/Air Leak 8
Short Fill 8
Insufficient Information 7
Filling Problem 6
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 6
Device Inoperable 4
Air Leak 3
Defective Device 3
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 3
Complete Blockage 2
Defective Component 2
Mechanical Problem 2
Off-Label Use 2
Output Problem 2

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 4
98
1998: 1
00
2000: 6
01
2001: 9
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 2
05
2005: 11
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 19
09
2009: 13
10
2010: 24
11
2011: 17
12
2012: 16
13
2013: 22
14
2014: 9
15
2015: 10
16
2016: 15
17
2017: 21
18
2018: 22
19
2019: 29
20
2020: 18
21
2021: 18
22
2022: 97
23
2023: 25
24
2024: 9
25
2025: 55

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

354 (71.8%)
I 122 (24.7%)
HOSPITAL 11 (2.2%)
NO INFORMATION 3 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.4%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On…, 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 (493 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On… 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 Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On…; 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.