Light, Surgical, Accessories
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 §878.4580 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Light, Surgical, Accessories LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#995 of 1000 · 369 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 369 reports
- RANK #995 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 12 injury-typed
- MALF 355 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2023: 105
- PHOTO Material, Impression
Nearest event-volume peer: Material, Impression (0 report gap)
Light, Surgical, Accessories sits #995 of 1000 among tracked device types with 369 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 run above the device-type norm
Light, Surgical, Accessories carries 96.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 3.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.0 pp)
- MALF 96.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 34% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET SAS accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .
Light, Surgical, Accessories in the event-volume neighbourhood
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What this shows Light, Surgical, Accessories carries 369 MAUDE reports, ranked #995 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 19 in 2025, down from an average of 67 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Light, Surgical, Accessories
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Light, Surgical, Accessories carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (369 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Light, Surgical, Accessories 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 Light, Surgical, Accessories; 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.