Latex Patient Examination Glove
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 §880.6250 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Latex Patient Examination Glove LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#409 of 1000 · 2,992 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 2,992 reports
- RANK #409 of 1000
- DEATH 17 death-typed
- INJ 1,087 injury-typed
- MALF 103 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 1999: 691
- PHOTO Medical Device Data S…
Nearest event-volume peer: Medical Device Data System (11 report gap)
Latex Patient Examination Glove sits #409 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,992 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 sit below the device-type norm
Latex Patient Examination Glove carries 3.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 61.4pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
- INJ 36.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+6.0 pp)
- MALF 3.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-61.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Reaction is 81% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNK accounts for 63% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Latex Patient Examination Glove in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Interoperable…
Interoperable Automated Glycemic Controller
3,009 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Tracheal, Expandable
3,009 reports
- Latex Patient… (this)
Latex Patient Examination Glove
2,992 reports
- Medical Devic…
Medical Device Data System
2,981 reports
- System
System, Photopheresis, Extracorporeal
2,966 reports
- Light Source
Light Source, Fiberoptic, Routine
2,959 reports
What this shows Latex Patient Examination Glove carries 2,992 MAUDE reports, ranked #409 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 1 in 2025, down from an average of 4 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Latex Patient Examination Glove
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Latex Patient Examination Glove: 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 (2,992 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (17 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Latex Patient Examination Glove 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 Latex Patient Examination Glove; 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.