Instrument, Compression
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 §888.4540 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Instrument, Compression LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#721 of 1000 · 822 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 822 reports
- RANK #721 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 26 injury-typed
- MALF 793 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 181
- PHOTO Device
Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube (0 report gap)
Instrument, Compression sits #721 of 1000 among tracked device types with 822 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Instrument, Compression carries 96.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.6pp 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 3.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.1 pp)
- MALF 96.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY IRELAND - 9616671 accounts for 43% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 72% of location-tagged rows .
Instrument, Compression in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Hemodialysis, Triple Lumen, Non-Implanted
825 reports
- Suture
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyester
825 reports
- Plate
Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Non-Alterable
824 reports
- Instrument (this)
Instrument, Compression
822 reports
- Device
Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube
822 reports
- Bed
Bed, Patient Rotation, Powered
817 reports
What this shows Instrument, Compression carries 822 MAUDE reports, ranked #721 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 rose to 181 in 2025, up from an average of 83 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Instrument, Compression
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Instrument, Compression carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (822 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Instrument, Compression 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 Instrument, Compression; 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.