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Mixer, Breathing Gases, Anesthesia Inhalation

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 Mixer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#818 of 1000 · 588 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 588 reports
  • RANK #818 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 69 injury-typed
  • MALF 496 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2004: 56
  • PHOTO Centrifuges For Clini…

Nearest event-volume peer: Centrifuges (Micro, Ultra, Refrigerated) For Clinical Use (0 report gap)

Mixer, Breathing Gases, Anesthesia Inhalation sits #818 of 1000 among tracked device types with 588 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 1.5% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.0 pp)
  • INJ 11.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-18.7 pp)
  • MALF 84.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Mechanical Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CAREFUSION accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 29% of location-tagged rows .

Mixer in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Mixer, Breathing Gases, Anesthesia Inhalation carries 588 MAUDE reports, ranked #818 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 496 (84.4%)
Injury 69 (11.7%)
9 (1.5%)
Death 9 (1.5%)
Other 5 (0.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

480 (80.3%)
Required Intervention 58 (9.7%)
Other 31 (5.2%)
Life Threatening 10 (1.7%)
R 8 (1.3%)
Death 8 (1.3%)
S 2 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Mechanical Problem 39
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 25
Device Alarm System 16
No Audible Alarm 15
Leak/Splash 13
Inaccurate Delivery 9
Output Problem 8
Infusion or Flow Problem 6
Fire 5
Gas Output Problem 5
Material Integrity Problem 5
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 5
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 4
Gas/Air Leak 4
Improper Device Output 4
Insufficient Information 4
No Apparent Adverse Event 4
No Flow 4
Calibration Problem 3
Component Misassembled 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 15
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 54
03
2003: 39
04
2004: 56
05
2005: 4
06
2006: 17
07
2007: 15
08
2008: 20
09
2009: 4
10
2010: 22
11
2011: 11
12
2012: 27
13
2013: 18
14
2014: 11
15
2015: 39
16
2016: 30
17
2017: 22
18
2018: 24
19
2019: 26
20
2020: 15
21
2021: 33
22
2022: 15
23
2023: 19
24
2024: 18
25
2025: 13
26
2026: 1

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Top Manufacturers

CAREFUSION 77
VYAIRE MEDICAL 66
CAREFUSION, INC 31

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 169 (28.7%)
136 (23.1%)
I 128 (21.8%)
OTHER 86 (14.6%)
UNKNOWN 55 (9.4%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (1.2%)
INVALID DATA 5 (0.9%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)

Compare CAREFUSION vs VYAIRE MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Mixer, 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 (588 here).

Centrifuges For Clinical Use 588 Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature 588 Neurosurgical Paddie 588 Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, 585

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (9 here), distinct from the volume row.

Blood Establishment Computer Software And A… 9 Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic 9 Choledochoscope And Accessories 9 Connector, Airway 9

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Mixer 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 Mixer; 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.