Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted
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, Ceiling Mounted LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#311 of 1000 · 5,203 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 5,203 reports
- RANK #311 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 159 injury-typed
- MALF 4,766 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2023: 663
- PHOTO Dilator, Esophageal
Nearest event-volume peer: Dilator, Esophageal (21 report gap)
Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted sits #311 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,203 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted carries 3.1% INJURY-coded reports, 27.2pp below 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 3.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.2 pp)
- MALF 91.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+26.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET SAS accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, X-Ray, Tomography, Computed
5,243 reports
- Sterilizer
Sterilizer, Chemical
5,242 reports
- Expander
Expander, Surgical, Skin Graft
5,240 reports
- Dilator
Dilator, Esophageal
5,224 reports
- Light (this)
Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted
5,203 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Vascular Graft, Of 6mm And Greater Diameter
5,172 reports
What this shows Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted carries 5,203 MAUDE reports, ranked #311 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 292 in 2025, down from an average of 602 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted 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 (5,203 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, Ceiling Mounted 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, Ceiling Mounted; 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.