Lavage, Jet
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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.5475 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Lavage, Jet LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#324 of 1000 · 4,888 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 4,888 reports
- RANK #324 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 330 injury-typed
- MALF 4,528 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2025: 845
- PHOTO Biopsy Needle
Nearest event-volume peer: Biopsy Needle (4 report gap)
Lavage, Jet sits #324 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,888 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Lavage, Jet carries 92.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 27.8pp 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 6.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
- MALF 92.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+27.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Inability to Irrigate is 12% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Lavage, Jet in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Accessories
Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous
4,902 reports
- Biopsy Needle
Biopsy Needle
4,892 reports
- Lavage, Jet (this)
Lavage, Jet
4,888 reports
- Lenses
Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear
4,868 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Flow Directed
4,863 reports
- Cement
Cement, Bone, Vertebroplasty
4,809 reports
What this shows Lavage, Jet carries 4,888 MAUDE reports, ranked #324 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 rose to 845 in 2025, up from an average of 379 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Lavage, Jet
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. vs SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lavage, Jet: 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 (4,888 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lavage, Jet 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 Lavage, Jet; 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.