2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Lift, Patient, Non-Ac-Powered

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 §880.5510 (General Hospital panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

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

#174 of 1000 · 14,697 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 14,697 reports
  • RANK #174 of 1000
  • DEATH 423 death-typed
  • INJ 2,850 injury-typed
  • MALF 9,819 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 1,923
  • PHOTO Appliance

Nearest event-volume peer: Appliance, Fixation, Spinal Interlaminal (130 report gap)

Lift, Patient, Non-Ac-Powered sits #174 of 1000 among tracked device types with 14,697 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

Lift, Patient, Non-Ac-Powered carries 19.4% INJURY-coded reports, 10.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.4 pp)
  • INJ 19.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-10.9 pp)
  • MALF 66.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 14% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVACARE SUZHOU accounts for 45% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Lift, Patient, Non-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, Non-Ac-Powered carries 14,697 MAUDE reports, ranked #174 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 9,819 (66.8%)
Injury 2,850 (19.4%)
Other 1,216 (8.3%)
Death 423 (2.9%)
389 (2.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 6,808 (44.5%)
5,201 (34.0%)
Hospitalization 1,217 (8.0%)
Required Intervention 969 (6.3%)
Death 422 (2.8%)
R 271 (1.8%)
O 133 (0.9%)
H 106 (0.7%)
L 55 (0.4%)
Life Threatening 45 (0.3%)
S 23 (0.2%)
Disability 17 (0.1%)
D 13 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 1,728
Detachment Of Device Component 1,241
Detachment of Device or Device Component 981
Use of Device Problem 980
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 863
Device Tipped Over 713
Mechanical Problem 701
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 485
Device Slipped 468
Component Falling 460
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 440
Component(s), broken 414
Unintended Movement 396
Leak/Splash 383
Bent 376
Insufficient Device Problem Information 349
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 339
Material Separation 272
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 236
Sticking 233

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 20
94
1994: 68
95
1995: 75
96
1996: 158
97
1997: 234
98
1998: 144
99
1999: 153
00
2000: 290
01
2001: 283
02
2002: 310
03
2003: 194
04
2004: 196
05
2005: 189
06
2006: 198
07
2007: 199
08
2008: 235
09
2009: 231
10
2010: 344
11
2011: 449
12
2012: 981
13
2013: 1,923
14
2014: 1,602
15
2015: 1,421
16
2016: 735
17
2017: 378
18
2018: 367
19
2019: 393
20
2020: 281
21
2021: 257
22
2022: 264
23
2023: 342
24
2024: 371
25
2025: 438
26
2026: 974

Reports in 2025 (438) held close to the prior two-year average of 357.

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

9,004 (61.3%)
NURSING HOME 2,345 (16.0%)
I 1,928 (13.1%)
HOSPITAL 669 (4.6%)
HOME 230 (1.6%)
INVALID DATA 173 (1.2%)
OTHER 159 (1.1%)
NO INFORMATION 112 (0.8%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 38 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 26 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
REHABILITATION CENTER 3 (0.0%)
PATIENT'S ROOM OR WARD 2 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare INVACARE SUZHOU vs UNKNOWN →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Lift, Patient, Non-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 (14,697 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (423 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Lift, Patient, Non-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, Non-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.