2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Mesh, Surgical

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 Mesh, Surgical MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#195 of 1000 · 11,521 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 11,521 reports
  • RANK #195 of 1000
  • DEATH 45 death-typed
  • INJ 10,032 injury-typed
  • MALF 603 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 3,351
  • PHOTO Shoulder Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Shoulder Prosthesis, Reverse Configuration (6 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical sits #195 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,521 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 →

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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
  • INJ 87.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+56.6 pp)
  • MALF 5.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-59.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 54% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 75% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Mesh, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mesh, Surgical carries 11,521 MAUDE reports, ranked #195 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 10,032 (87.1%)
Other 813 (7.1%)
Malfunction 603 (5.2%)
Death 45 (0.4%)
28 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 5,009 (40.4%)
Disability 2,975 (24.0%)
Other 1,856 (15.0%)
914 (7.4%)
Hospitalization 689 (5.6%)
R 503 (4.1%)
O 116 (0.9%)
S 113 (0.9%)
H 82 (0.7%)
L 69 (0.6%)
Death 51 (0.4%)
Life Threatening 26 (0.2%)
D 6 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,433
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 613
Insufficient Information 411
Patient Device Interaction Problem 206
Migration or Expulsion of Device 159
Defective Device 120
Patient-Device Incompatibility 104
Break 94
Migration 65
Degraded 45
Material Split, Cut or Torn 34
Mechanics Altered 34
Material Disintegration 31
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 30
Material Erosion 30
Material Integrity Problem 30
No Apparent Adverse Event 27
Loss of or Failure to Bond 21
Peeled/Delaminated 18
Material Deformation 17

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
94
1994: 10
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 10
97
1997: 23
98
1998: 23
99
1999: 12
00
2000: 19
01
2001: 19
02
2002: 35
03
2003: 46
04
2004: 32
05
2005: 42
06
2006: 39
07
2007: 60
08
2008: 141
09
2009: 476
10
2010: 197
11
2011: 288
12
2012: 467
13
2013: 3,351
14
2014: 1,093
15
2015: 977
16
2016: 509
17
2017: 529
18
2018: 357
19
2019: 418
20
2020: 457
21
2021: 369
22
2022: 375
23
2023: 485
24
2024: 384
25
2025: 234
26
2026: 37

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

7,053 (61.2%)
I 2,765 (24.0%)
HOSPITAL 1,374 (11.9%)
NO INFORMATION 205 (1.8%)
OTHER 53 (0.5%)
NOT APPLICABLE 23 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 23 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 11 (0.1%)
HOME 8 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, Surgical, 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 (11,521 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (45 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mesh, Surgical 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 Mesh, Surgical; 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.