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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4820 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Instrument LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#421 of 1000 · 2,859 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 2,859 reports
- RANK #421 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 75 injury-typed
- MALF 2,780 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2011: 1,080
- PHOTO Pin, Fixation, Smooth
Nearest event-volume peer: Pin, Fixation, Smooth (9 report gap)
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment sits #421 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,859 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Instrument carries 97.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 32.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 2.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.7 pp)
- MALF 97.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+32.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 14% 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
- Lithotriptor
Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical
2,875 reports
- Pin
Pin, Fixation, Smooth
2,868 reports
- Instrument (this)
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
2,859 reports
- Nebulizer
Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)
2,847 reports
- Stent
Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting
2,846 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable
2,835 reports
What this shows Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment carries 2,859 MAUDE reports, ranked #421 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 fell to 4 in 2025, down from an average of 7 in the two years before.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for 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 (2,859 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.