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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Lamp, Surgical

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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FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Lamp, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#614 of 1000 · 1,238 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 1,238 reports
  • RANK #614 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 143 injury-typed
  • MALF 992 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 251
  • PHOTO Clamp

Nearest event-volume peer: Clamp (3 report gap)

Lamp, Surgical sits #614 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,238 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 →

Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm

Lamp, Surgical carries 11.6% INJURY-coded reports, 18.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 11.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-18.7 pp)
  • MALF 80.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+15.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 34% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET SAS accounts for 91% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Lamp, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lamp, Surgical carries 1,238 MAUDE reports, ranked #614 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 992 (80.1%)
Injury 143 (11.6%)
51 (4.1%)
Other 46 (3.7%)
No answer provided 4 (0.3%)
Death 2 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,001 (78.6%)
Other 154 (12.1%)
Required Intervention 43 (3.4%)
R 31 (2.4%)
Life Threatening 25 (2.0%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.6%)
L 6 (0.5%)
Death 2 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Not Applicable 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Detachment of Device or Device Component 518
Peeled/Delaminated 222
Crack 121
Component Falling 93
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 86
Detachment Of Device Component 86
Corroded 70
Break 55
Fluid/Blood Leak 48
Device Fell 35
Fracture 34
Device Contaminated at the User Facility 30
Flaked 28
Use of Device Problem 16
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 14
No Apparent Adverse Event 14
Disconnection 12
Component(s), broken 11
Smoking 11
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 10

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 4
94
1994: 5
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 9
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 6
04
2004: 16
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 10
09
2009: 22
10
2010: 21
11
2011: 30
12
2012: 26
13
2013: 29
14
2014: 29
15
2015: 45
16
2016: 18
17
2017: 10
18
2018: 16
19
2019: 80
20
2020: 105
21
2021: 65
22
2022: 136
23
2023: 251
24
2024: 144
25
2025: 85
26
2026: 40

Reports fell to 85 in 2025, down from an average of 198 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Lamp, Surgical

Top Manufacturers

MAQUET SAS 794
STRYKER GMBH 66
MAQUET S.A.S 12

Event Locations

845 (68.3%)
I 272 (22.0%)
HOSPITAL 99 (8.0%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (1.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare MAQUET SAS vs STRYKER GMBH →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lamp, Surgical: 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 (1,238 here).

Clamp 1,235 System 1,248 Tube, Gastro-Enterostomy 1,228 System/Device, Pharmacy Compounding 1,226

Similar death-typed counts

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

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2 Blade 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lamp, Surgical 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 Lamp, Surgical; 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.