Heater, Breathing System W/Wo Controller (Not Humidifier Or Nebulizer
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 Heater LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#368 of 1000 · 3,442 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 3,442 reports
- RANK #368 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 109 injury-typed
- MALF 3,285 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2013: 387
- PHOTO Catheters
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial (23 report gap)
Heater, Breathing System W/Wo Controller (Not Humidifier Or Nebulizer sits #368 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,442 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 3.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.3 pp)
- MALF 95.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+30.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LTD accounts for 74% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 72% of location-tagged rows .
Heater in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, Test, Automated, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, Short Incubation
3,510 reports
- System
System, Test, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
3,475 reports
- Heater (this)
Heater, Breathing System W/Wo Controller (Not Humidifier Or Nebulizer
3,442 reports
- Catheters
Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial
3,419 reports
- Driver
Driver, Wire, And Bone Drill, Manual
3,390 reports
- Extractor
Extractor
3,381 reports
What this shows Heater, Breathing System W/Wo Controller (Not Humidifier Or Nebulizer carries 3,442 MAUDE reports, ranked #368 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
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LTD vs FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE, LTD. →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Heater, 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 (3,442 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Heater 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 Heater; 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.