2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment

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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#409 of 1000 · 2,855 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 2,855 reports
  • RANK #409 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 75 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,776 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2011: 1,080
  • PHOTO Pin, Fixation, Smooth

Nearest event-volume peer: Pin, Fixation, Smooth (7 report gap)

Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment sits #409 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,855 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 2.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.8 pp)
  • MALF 97.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device-Device Incompatibility is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO accounts for 85% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 98% of location-tagged rows .

Instrument in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment carries 2,855 MAUDE reports, ranked #409 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,776 (97.2%)
Injury 75 (2.6%)
Death 2 (0.1%)
1 (0.0%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,786 (97.6%)
Required Intervention 50 (1.8%)
Other 18 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Device-Device Incompatibility 12
Unintended Movement 5
Disassembly 4
Fluid/Blood Leak 4
Break 3
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 2
Overheating of Device 2
Corroded 1
Defective Device 1
Detachment Of Device Component 1
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1
Device Fell 1
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 1
Entrapment of Device 1
Failure to Clean Adequately 1
Fracture 1
Insufficient Information 1
Mechanical Jam 1
Protective Measures Problem 1

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 2
98
1998: 1
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 17
02
2002: 17
03
2003: 7
04
2004: 5
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 10
08
2008: 4
09
2009: 265
10
2010: 424
11
2011: 1,080
12
2012: 615
13
2013: 288
14
2014: 36
15
2015: 36
16
2016: 11
17
2017: 1
18
2018: 1
19
2019: 1
20
2020: 1
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 6
24
2024: 8
25
2025: 4
26
2026: 2

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Event Locations

2,786 (97.6%)
I 32 (1.1%)
HOSPITAL 31 (1.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 1 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for 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 (2,855 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for 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 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.