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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered

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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.5500 (General Hospital panel).

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FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#577 of 1000 · 1,469 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,469 reports
  • RANK #577 of 1000
  • DEATH 75 death-typed
  • INJ 455 injury-typed
  • MALF 618 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 178
  • PHOTO Indicator

Nearest event-volume peer: Indicator, Biological Sterilization Process (0 report gap)

Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered sits #577 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,469 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

Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered carries 42.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 22.8pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 5.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+3.6 pp)
  • INJ 31.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
  • MALF 42.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-22.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Detachment Of Device Component is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVACARE SUZHOU accounts for 54% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered carries 1,469 MAUDE reports, ranked #577 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 618 (42.1%)
Injury 455 (31.0%)
Other 265 (18.0%)
Death 75 (5.1%)
56 (3.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

519 (33.2%)
Other 451 (28.9%)
Hospitalization 206 (13.2%)
Required Intervention 204 (13.1%)
Death 71 (4.5%)
O 33 (2.1%)
R 30 (1.9%)
H 11 (0.7%)
S 10 (0.6%)
L 9 (0.6%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.5%)
Disability 5 (0.3%)
Invalid Data 5 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Detachment Of Device Component 226
Break 168
Component(s), broken 119
Component Falling 81
Device Tipped Over 81
Use of Device Problem 57
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 56
Device Slipped 46
Sticking 45
Material Separation 43
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 42
Device Issue 41
Loose 41
Insufficient Device Problem Information 37
Detachment of Device or Device Component 31
Unintended System Motion 31
Collapse 30
Bent 28
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 28
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 26

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 44
93
1993: 29
94
1994: 8
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 16
97
1997: 22
98
1998: 32
99
1999: 38
00
2000: 53
01
2001: 41
02
2002: 24
03
2003: 13
04
2004: 38
05
2005: 36
06
2006: 69
07
2007: 74
08
2008: 125
09
2009: 178
10
2010: 95
11
2011: 125
12
2012: 93
13
2013: 157
14
2014: 51
15
2015: 31
16
2016: 5
17
2017: 8
18
2018: 6
19
2019: 4
20
2020: 5
21
2021: 4
22
2022: 5
23
2023: 16
24
2024: 4
25
2025: 5
26
2026: 5

Reports fell to 5 in 2025, down from an average of 10 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered

Top Manufacturers

INVACARE SUZHOU 51
INVAMEX 44

Event Locations

816 (55.5%)
NURSING HOME 369 (25.1%)
HOSPITAL 112 (7.6%)
HOME 61 (4.2%)
OTHER 32 (2.2%)
INVALID DATA 29 (2.0%)
I 15 (1.0%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (0.8%)
UNKNOWN 11 (0.7%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (0.5%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
DIALYSIS CENTER 1 (0.1%)
HOSPICE 1 (0.1%)
REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.1%)

Compare INVACARE SUZHOU vs INVAMEX →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered: 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 (1,469 here).

Indicator, Biological Sterilization Process 1,469 Bed, Air Fluidized 1,460 Radioimmunoassay, Parathyroid Hormone 1,479 Fluid Jet Removal System 1,449

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (75 here), distinct from the volume row.

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Powered Suc… 75 Prosthesis 75 Screw, Fixation, Bone 75 Intestinal Stimulator 74

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered 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 Lift, Patient, Ac-Powered; 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.