2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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.

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openFDA event book Mattress LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#442 of 1000 · 2,417 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,417 reports
  • RANK #442 of 1000
  • DEATH 154 death-typed
  • INJ 752 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,225 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2012: 303
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Imaging, Pulsed Doppler, Ultrasonic (4 report gap)

Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure sits #442 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,417 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 →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 6.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.9 pp)
  • INJ 31.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
  • MALF 50.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-13.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 60% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Mattress in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure carries 2,417 MAUDE reports, ranked #442 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,225 (50.7%)
Injury 752 (31.1%)
166 (6.9%)
Death 154 (6.4%)
Other 120 (5.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,186 (47.3%)
Other 745 (29.7%)
Hospitalization 166 (6.6%)
Required Intervention 148 (5.9%)
Death 147 (5.9%)
R 45 (1.8%)
H 25 (1.0%)
O 14 (0.6%)
Life Threatening 12 (0.5%)
L 7 (0.3%)
S 7 (0.3%)
Disability 4 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 283
Insufficient Information 108
Deflation Problem 76
Increase in Pressure 73
Sparking 47
Use of Device Problem 47
Inflation Problem 44
Dent in Material 23
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 20
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 19
Smoking 17
Decrease in Pressure 14
Melted 14
No Apparent Adverse Event 14
Unintended Deflation 14
Electrical Shorting 13
Fire 13
Infusion or Flow Problem 11
Patient-Device Incompatibility 11
Pressure Problem 10

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
95
1995: 4
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 36
98
1998: 17
99
1999: 15
00
2000: 11
01
2001: 18
02
2002: 16
03
2003: 12
04
2004: 16
05
2005: 8
06
2006: 28
07
2007: 33
08
2008: 35
09
2009: 33
10
2010: 56
11
2011: 291
12
2012: 303
13
2013: 223
14
2014: 80
15
2015: 80
16
2016: 50
17
2017: 56
18
2018: 115
19
2019: 101
20
2020: 58
21
2021: 47
22
2022: 75
23
2023: 197
24
2024: 254
25
2025: 129
26
2026: 11

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

1,644 (68.0%)
I 292 (12.1%)
HOSPITAL 263 (10.9%)
NURSING HOME 99 (4.1%)
HOME 72 (3.0%)
OTHER 19 (0.8%)
INVALID DATA 9 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 6 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mattress, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

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.