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 MAUDE casebook
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
- Suture
Suture, Absorbable, Natural
2,436 reports
- Staple
Staple, Fixation, Bone
2,423 reports
- Mattress (this)
Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
2,417 reports
- System
System, Imaging, Pulsed Doppler, Ultrasonic
2,413 reports
- Stylet For Ca…
Stylet For Catheter, Gastro-Urology
2,398 reports
- Tube
Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
2,398 reports
What this shows Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure carries 2,417 MAUDE reports, ranked #442 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
Related Entities for Mattress, Air Flotation, Alternating Pressure
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Event Locations
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.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,417 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.