Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
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 §880.5550 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Mattress LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#447 of 1000 · 2,524 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 2,524 reports
- RANK #447 of 1000
- DEATH 154 death-typed
- INJ 767 injury-typed
- MALF 1,316 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2012: 303
- PHOTO Gauze/Sponge
Nearest event-volume peer: Gauze/Sponge, Internal, X-Ray Detectable (3 report gap)
Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure sits #447 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,524 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Mattress carries 52.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 12.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 6.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.6 pp)
- INJ 30.4% corpus 30.3% · near corpus mean (+0.1 pp)
- MALF 52.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-12.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 69% of location-tagged rows .
Mattress in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Mattress (this)
Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
2,524 reports
- Gauze/Sponge
Gauze/Sponge, Internal, X-Ray Detectable
2,521 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
2,520 reports
- Aid, Transfer
Aid, Transfer
2,515 reports
- Suture
Suture, Absorbable, Natural
2,489 reports
- Tube
Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
2,475 reports
What this shows Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure carries 2,524 MAUDE reports, ranked #447 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 129 in 2025, down from an average of 226 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mattress: 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 (2,524 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (154 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mattress 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 Mattress; 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.