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Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered

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, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#542 of 1000 · 1,560 reports · 1992–2025

  • BOOK 1,560 reports
  • RANK #542 of 1000
  • DEATH 34 death-typed
  • INJ 177 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,267 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2025
  • PEAK 2024: 433
  • PHOTO Tube

Nearest event-volume peer: Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector) (2 report gap)

Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered sits #542 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,560 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2025. 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 2.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
  • INJ 11.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-19.1 pp)
  • MALF 81.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+16.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device Slipped is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 45% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 78% of location-tagged rows .

Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered carries 1,560 MAUDE reports, ranked #542 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,267 (81.2%)
Injury 177 (11.3%)
Other 50 (3.2%)
Death 34 (2.2%)
31 (2.0%)
No answer provided 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,228 (78.2%)
Other 234 (14.9%)
Required Intervention 44 (2.8%)
Death 31 (2.0%)
Hospitalization 19 (1.2%)
R 6 (0.4%)
Disability 3 (0.2%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)
O 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Device Slipped 146
Use of Device Problem 59
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 50
Maintenance Does Not Comply To Manufacturers Recommendations 47
Increase in Pressure 26
Insufficient Information 19
Detachment of Device or Device Component 10
Patient Device Interaction Problem 7
Unintended Movement 6
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
No Apparent Adverse Event 5
Patient-Device Incompatibility 5
Component Falling 4
Decrease in Pressure 4
Device-Device Incompatibility 4
Inflation Problem 4
Material Split, Cut or Torn 4
Material Deformation 3
Pressure Problem 3
Structural Problem 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
95
1995: 1
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 15
09
2009: 23
10
2010: 36
11
2011: 119
12
2012: 47
13
2013: 164
14
2014: 207
15
2015: 74
16
2016: 62
17
2017: 27
18
2018: 131
19
2019: 45
20
2020: 16
21
2021: 13
22
2022: 44
23
2023: 23
24
2024: 433
25
2025: 39

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Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 337
STRYKER MEDICAL 320
HILL-ROM, INC. 87

Event Locations

1,214 (77.8%)
I 225 (14.4%)
HOSPITAL 84 (5.4%)
NURSING HOME 13 (0.8%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (0.8%)
HOME 9 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered, 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 (1,560 here).

Tube 1,558 Table, Operating-Room, Electrical 1,563 Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology 1,570 Reagent, Coronavirus Serological 1,550

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (34 here), distinct from the volume row.

Analyzer, Gas, Carbon-Dioxide, Gaseous-Phase 34 Insufflator, Laparoscopic 34 Prosthesis 34 Ventilator, Emergency, Powered 34

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered 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, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered; 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.