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
- Tampon
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented
11,680 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed
11,654 reports
- Shoulder Pros…
Shoulder Prosthesis, Reverse Configuration
11,527 reports
- Mesh, Surgical (this)
Mesh, Surgical
11,521 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Coronary, Atherectomy
11,401 reports
- Recorder
Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (With Arrhythmia Detection)
11,120 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical carries 11,521 MAUDE reports, ranked #195 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 Mesh, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.