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Microfilter, Blood Transfusion

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 Microfilter, Blood Transfusion LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#535 of 1000 · 1,615 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 1,615 reports
  • RANK #535 of 1000
  • DEATH 7 death-typed
  • INJ 108 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,368 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 334
  • PHOTO Retractor

Nearest event-volume peer: Retractor (0 report gap)

Microfilter, Blood Transfusion sits #535 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,615 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 6.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.8 pp)
  • MALF 84.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+20.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 36% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 38% of location-tagged rows .

Microfilter, Blood Transfusion in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Microfilter, Blood Transfusion carries 1,615 MAUDE reports, ranked #535 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,368 (84.7%)
Injury 108 (6.7%)
Other 104 (6.4%)
28 (1.7%)
Death 7 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,319 (80.5%)
Required Intervention 153 (9.3%)
112 (6.8%)
R 22 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 18 (1.1%)
Death 7 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 7 (0.4%)
L 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 732
Coagulation in Device or Device Ingredient 304
Filtration Problem 231
Defective Component 166
High Test Results 116
Restricted Flow rate 105
Insufficient Information 80
High Readings 74
Contamination of Device Ingredient or Reagent 52
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 41
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 21
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 18
Incorrect Or Inadequate Test Results 17
Inadequate Filtration Process 13
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 11
Product Quality Problem 9
Free or Unrestricted Flow 8
Device Ingredient or Reagent Problem 7
No Apparent Adverse Event 7
Contamination 5

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 5
94
1994: 19
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 20
97
1997: 77
98
1998: 50
99
1999: 39
00
2000: 18
01
2001: 9
02
2002: 12
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 12
06
2006: 19
07
2007: 5
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 8
10
2010: 3
11
2011: 4
13
2013: 104
14
2014: 37
15
2015: 58
16
2016: 97
17
2017: 131
18
2018: 58
19
2019: 334
20
2020: 180
21
2021: 18
22
2022: 110
23
2023: 69
24
2024: 19
25
2025: 62
26
2026: 17

Related Entities for Microfilter, Blood Transfusion

Top Manufacturers

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP. 11

Event Locations

I 606 (37.5%)
485 (30.0%)
HOSPITAL 443 (27.4%)
OTHER 53 (3.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 9 (0.6%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.2%)
BLOOD BANK 3 (0.2%)
HOME 2 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.1%)
LABORATORY 1 (0.1%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Microfilter, Blood Transfusion, 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 (1,615 here).

Retractor 1,615 Laryngoscope, Endoscope 1,616 Assay 1,611 Cement, Dental 1,625

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (7 here), distinct from the volume row.

Device, Warming. Blood And Plasma 7 Dressing, Wound, Occlusive 7 Image-Intensified Fluoroscopic X-Ray System 7 Instrument 7

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Microfilter, Blood Transfusion 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 Microfilter, Blood Transfusion; 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.