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Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric

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 Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#21 of 1000 · 168,757 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 168,757 reports
  • RANK #21 of 1000
  • DEATH 808 death-typed
  • INJ 162,908 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,179 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 26,520
  • PHOTO Defibrillator

Nearest event-volume peer: Defibrillator, Automatic Implantable Cardioverter, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-D) (3,805 report gap)

Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric sits #21 of 1000 among tracked device types with 168,757 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 96.5% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+66.1 pp)
  • MALF 2.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-62.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Defective Device is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric carries 168,757 MAUDE reports, ranked #21 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 162,908 (96.5%)
Malfunction 4,179 (2.5%)
Death 808 (0.5%)
Other 583 (0.3%)
278 (0.2%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 98,258 (47.8%)
Disability 27,660 (13.5%)
Other 26,981 (13.1%)
R 19,104 (9.3%)
S 11,802 (5.7%)
Hospitalization 8,822 (4.3%)
5,573 (2.7%)
O 3,292 (1.6%)
H 1,497 (0.7%)
L 1,040 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 731 (0.4%)
Death 633 (0.3%)
D 207 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 25 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Defective Device 56,677
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 37,175
Insufficient Information 34,041
Patient Device Interaction Problem 32,009
Patient-Device Incompatibility 7,552
Migration or Expulsion of Device 5,629
Mechanics Altered 5,405
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 3,751
Material Deformation 2,916
Migration 1,930
Material Split, Cut or Torn 1,122
Material Integrity Problem 844
Loss of or Failure to Bond 544
Material Erosion 538
Degraded 448
Detachment of Device or Device Component 407
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 275
No Apparent Adverse Event 236
Break 229
Material Separation 174

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 2
96
1996: 14
97
1997: 113
98
1998: 252
99
1999: 378
00
2000: 255
01
2001: 335
02
2002: 530
03
2003: 326
04
2004: 443
05
2005: 585
06
2006: 768
07
2007: 1,737
08
2008: 1,569
09
2009: 1,906
10
2010: 2,175
11
2011: 3,608
12
2012: 14,702
13
2013: 26,520
14
2014: 2,683
15
2015: 2,526
16
2016: 2,417
17
2017: 3,947
18
2018: 11,893
19
2019: 21,724
20
2020: 18,814
21
2021: 16,284
22
2022: 11,439
23
2023: 8,025
24
2024: 8,581
25
2025: 3,574
26
2026: 631

Related Entities for Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric

Top Manufacturers

DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. 55,309
ETHICON INC. 20,351
SOFRADIM PRODUCTION SAS 19,384
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH 14,625
DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. -1213643 8,807
ETHICON, INC. 6,981
AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 4,900
ATRIUM MEDICAL CORPORATION 4,287
C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) 4,135
SOFRADIM PRODUCTION 2,467

Event Locations

89,561 (53.1%)
I 55,252 (32.7%)
HOSPITAL 14,393 (8.5%)
OTHER 7,407 (4.4%)
NO INFORMATION 1,090 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 579 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 178 (0.1%)
HOME 142 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 60 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 39 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 37 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 8 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 7 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 2 (0.0%)
HOSPICE 1 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. vs ETHICON INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mesh, Surgical, Polymeric, 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 (168,757 here).

Defibrillator 164,952 Staple, Implantable 164,903 System, Peritoneal, Automatic Delivery 163,240 Prosthesis 153,958

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (808 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Coronary, Atherectomy 821 Ring, Annuloplasty 777 Catheter, Percutaneous 869 Heart-Valve, Mechanical 883

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.