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Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#809 of 1000 · 600 reports · 1995–2026

  • BOOK 600 reports
  • RANK #809 of 1000
  • DEATH 6 death-typed
  • INJ 70 injury-typed
  • MALF 517 malfunction
  • SPAN 1995–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 124
  • PHOTO Source

Nearest event-volume peer: Source, Brachytherapy, Radionuclide (1 report gap)

Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying sits #809 of 1000 among tracked device types with 600 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 (-0.5 pp)
  • INJ 11.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-18.8 pp)
  • MALF 86.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 39% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY MITEK LLC US accounts for 86% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying carries 600 MAUDE reports, ranked #809 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 517 (86.2%)
Injury 70 (11.7%)
Death 6 (1.0%)
Other 6 (1.0%)
1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

501 (80.7%)
Other 43 (6.9%)
Required Intervention 36 (5.8%)
R 12 (1.9%)
Hospitalization 9 (1.4%)
Death 6 (1.0%)
L 4 (0.6%)
O 3 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.5%)
H 2 (0.3%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 180
Material Deformation 72
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 21
Device-Device Incompatibility 18
Detachment of Device or Device Component 17
Difficult to Advance 16
Use of Device Problem 16
Misfire 15
Insufficient Information 13
Failure to Cut 11
Mechanical Problem 11
Unintended Movement 11
Failure to Fire 10
Material Twisted/Bent 9
Mechanical Jam 8
Difficult to Open or Close 6
Entrapment of Device 6
Packaging Problem 6
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 5
Defective Device 5

Yearly Trend

95
1995: 1
98
1998: 1
00
2000: 2
02
2002: 1
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 1
07
2007: 1
10
2010: 3
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 3
13
2013: 11
14
2014: 17
15
2015: 6
16
2016: 10
17
2017: 8
18
2018: 66
19
2019: 40
20
2020: 27
21
2021: 46
22
2022: 68
23
2023: 57
24
2024: 124
25
2025: 78
26
2026: 23

Related Entities for Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY MITEK LLC US 277
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 28
DEPUY MITEK 18

Event Locations

309 (51.5%)
HOSPITAL 151 (25.2%)
I 126 (21.0%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (2.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare DEPUY MITEK LLC US vs TELEFLEX MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying, 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 (600 here).

Source, Brachytherapy, Radionuclide 599 Drill, Dental, Intraoral 598 Pacemaker, Cardiac, External Transcutaneous 597 Endoscope 596

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.

Applicator, Absorbent Tipped, Non-Sterile 6 Cable, Electrode 6 Catheter, Straight 6 Device, Percutaneous Retrieval 6

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying 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, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying; 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.