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Lavage, Jet

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 Lavage, Jet LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#326 of 1000 · 4,670 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 4,670 reports
  • RANK #326 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 324 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,316 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 845
  • PHOTO Table

Nearest event-volume peer: Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories) (8 report gap)

Lavage, Jet sits #326 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,670 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 →

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 6.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
  • MALF 92.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+27.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Inability to Irrigate is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .

Lavage, Jet in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lavage, Jet carries 4,670 MAUDE reports, ranked #326 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,316 (92.4%)
Injury 324 (6.9%)
13 (0.3%)
Other 11 (0.2%)
Death 5 (0.1%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

4,297 (91.5%)
Required Intervention 187 (4.0%)
Other 144 (3.1%)
Hospitalization 26 (0.6%)
R 25 (0.5%)
Death 6 (0.1%)
O 5 (0.1%)
H 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Inability to Irrigate 442
Delivered as Unsterile Product 407
Suction Failure 272
Battery Problem 241
Detachment of Device or Device Component 223
Crack 177
Overheating of Device 171
Fluid/Blood Leak 131
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 116
Failure to Power Up 115
No Flow 115
Expulsion 112
Leak/Splash 104
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 90
Break 83
Mechanical Problem 80
Difficult to Insert 79
Explosion 70
Biocompatibility 67
Failure to Prime 65

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 12
98
1998: 9
99
1999: 6
00
2000: 7
01
2001: 5
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 4
04
2004: 8
05
2005: 7
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 10
08
2008: 27
09
2009: 70
10
2010: 135
11
2011: 83
12
2012: 133
13
2013: 134
14
2014: 194
15
2015: 116
16
2016: 150
17
2017: 243
18
2018: 317
19
2019: 328
20
2020: 393
21
2021: 398
22
2022: 171
23
2023: 333
24
2024: 425
25
2025: 845
26
2026: 82

Related Entities for Lavage, Jet

Top Manufacturers

ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. 1,621
SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. 745
COLOPLAST A/S 287
CAREFUSION, INC 246
MAQUET CV 126
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 119
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 96

Event Locations

2,643 (56.6%)
I 1,775 (38.0%)
HOSPITAL 199 (4.3%)
NO INFORMATION 30 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.2%)
OTHER 6 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
LABORATORY 2 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 1 (0.0%)

Compare ZIMMER SURGICAL, INC. vs SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lavage, Jet, 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 (4,670 here).

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered 4,662 Catheter, Flow Directed 4,682 Apparatus 4,648 Ventilator, Emergency, Powered 4,700

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

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.