Guide, Surgical, Instrument
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 Guide, Surgical, Instrument LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#236 of 1000 · 8,257 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 8,257 reports
- RANK #236 of 1000
- DEATH 4 death-typed
- INJ 1,463 injury-typed
- MALF 6,776 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2024: 882
- PHOTO Stent, Carotid
Nearest event-volume peer: Stent, Carotid (82 report gap)
Guide, Surgical, Instrument sits #236 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,257 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 17.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-12.7 pp)
- MALF 82.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+17.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device-Device Incompatibility is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .
Guide, Surgical, Instrument in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever
8,409 reports
- Dialyzer
Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber
8,369 reports
- Acid
Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular
8,356 reports
- Stent, Carotid
Stent, Carotid
8,339 reports
- Guide (this)
Guide, Surgical, Instrument
8,257 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Tibial, Resurfacing (Uncemented)
8,110 reports
What this shows Guide, Surgical, Instrument carries 8,257 MAUDE reports, ranked #236 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Guide, Surgical, Instrument
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Guide, Surgical, Instrument, 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 (8,257 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Guide, Surgical, Instrument 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 Guide, Surgical, Instrument; 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.