Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §878.3300 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE
#21 of 1000 · 170,120 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 170,120 reports
- RANK #21 of 1000
- DEATH 852 death-typed
- INJ 164,116 injury-typed
- MALF 4,302 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2013: 26,519
- PHOTO Staple, Implantable
Nearest event-volume peer: Staple, Implantable (508 report gap)
Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric sits #21 of 1000 among tracked device types with 170,120 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric carries 96.5% INJURY-coded reports, 66.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- INJ 96.5% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+66.2 pp)
- MALF 2.5% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-62.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. accounts for 38% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .
Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Mesh (this)
Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric
170,120 reports
- Staple
Staple, Implantable
169,612 reports
- Defibrillator
Defibrillator, Automatic Implantable Cardioverter, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-D)
169,573 reports
- Integrated Co…
Integrated Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, Factory Calibrated, Not For Use With Automated Insulin Delivery Systems
165,468 reports
- System
System, Peritoneal, Automatic Delivery
164,500 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer
157,471 reports
What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric carries 170,120 MAUDE reports, ranked #21 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
Reports fell to 3,575 in 2025, down from an average of 8,304 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (170,120 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (852 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric 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, Polymeric; 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.