PlainHospital
2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Generator, Oxygen, Portable

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.

Browse devices → Device safety hub

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Generator, Oxygen, Portable MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#64 of 1000 · 52,481 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 52,481 reports
  • RANK #64 of 1000
  • DEATH 507 death-typed
  • INJ 969 injury-typed
  • MALF 50,794 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 24,538
  • PHOTO Suture

Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Absorbable, Synthetic, Polyglycolic Acid (62 report gap)

Generator, Oxygen, Portable sits #64 of 1000 among tracked device types with 52,481 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.6 pp)
  • INJ 1.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.6 pp)
  • MALF 96.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device Alarm System is 40% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS accounts for 97% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 89% of location-tagged rows .

Generator, Oxygen, Portable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Generator, Oxygen, Portable carries 52,481 MAUDE reports, ranked #64 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 50,794 (96.8%)
Injury 969 (1.8%)
Death 507 (1.0%)
Other 126 (0.2%)
85 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 45,107 (85.4%)
5,790 (11.0%)
Hospitalization 695 (1.3%)
Death 496 (0.9%)
Required Intervention 240 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 119 (0.2%)
R 91 (0.2%)
L 72 (0.1%)
O 72 (0.1%)
H 57 (0.1%)
Disability 26 (0.0%)
S 22 (0.0%)
D 18 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 9 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Device Alarm System 2,147
No Audible Alarm 482
Fire 276
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 271
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 252
Overheating of Device 245
Thermal Decomposition of Device 173
Circuit Failure 172
Break 156
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 150
Insufficient Information 145
Electrical Shorting 113
Defective Alarm 111
Loss of Power 109
Use of Device Problem 109
Low Readings 107
No Flow 103
Defective Device 95
Device Displays Incorrect Message 87
Melted 87

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 5
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 16
97
1997: 34
98
1998: 38
99
1999: 33
00
2000: 26
01
2001: 37
02
2002: 33
03
2003: 24
04
2004: 22
05
2005: 30
06
2006: 20
07
2007: 23
08
2008: 25
09
2009: 43
10
2010: 48
11
2011: 167
12
2012: 395
13
2013: 2,309
14
2014: 24,538
15
2015: 18,973
16
2016: 3,167
17
2017: 107
18
2018: 116
19
2019: 120
20
2020: 125
21
2021: 194
22
2022: 305
23
2023: 357
24
2024: 450
25
2025: 616
26
2026: 74

Related Entities for Generator, Oxygen, Portable

Top Manufacturers

INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS 46,136
RESPIRONICS, INC. 880
INVACARE SUZHOU 343
UNKNOWN 332

Event Locations

46,539 (88.7%)
I 5,564 (10.6%)
NO INFORMATION 150 (0.3%)
HOME 128 (0.2%)
HOSPITAL 31 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 22 (0.0%)
OTHER 18 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 15 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 14 (0.0%)

Compare INVACARE FLORIDA OPERATIONS vs RESPIRONICS, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Generator, Oxygen, Portable, 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 (52,481 here).

Suture 52,543 Endoscopic Video Imaging System/Component 53,347 Stimulator 51,502 Stimulator 51,263

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (507 here), distinct from the volume row.

Detector And Alarm, Arrhythmia 503 Device 492 Drug-Eluting Peripheral Transluminal Angiop… 526 Intracranial Neurovascular Stent 533

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Generator, Oxygen, Portable 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 Generator, Oxygen, Portable; 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.