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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4800 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Guide, Surgical, Instrument LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#236 of 1000 · 8,485 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 8,485 reports
- RANK #236 of 1000
- DEATH 4 death-typed
- INJ 1,467 injury-typed
- MALF 7,000 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2024: 882
- PHOTO Catheter
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy (34 report gap)
Guide, Surgical, Instrument sits #236 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,485 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Guide, Surgical, Instrument carries 82.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 17.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 17.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-13.0 pp)
- MALF 82.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+17.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device-Device Incompatibility is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .
Guide, Surgical, Instrument in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Guide (this)
Guide, Surgical, Instrument
8,485 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Peripheral, Atherectomy
8,451 reports
- Dialyzer
Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber
8,424 reports
- Acid
Acid, Hyaluronic, Intraarticular
8,410 reports
- Abutment
Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous
8,409 reports
- Hysteroscope
Hysteroscope (And Accessories)
8,394 reports
What this shows Guide, Surgical, Instrument carries 8,485 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
Reports in 2025 (631) held close to the prior two-year average of 860.
Related Entities for Guide, Surgical, Instrument
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Guide, Surgical, Instrument: 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 (8,485 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.