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Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered

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openFDA event book Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#144 of 1000 · 17,736 reports · 1999–2026

  • BOOK 17,736 reports
  • RANK #144 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 114 injury-typed
  • MALF 17,612 malfunction
  • SPAN 1999–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 2,119
  • PHOTO Immunoassay Method

Nearest event-volume peer: Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit (10 report gap)

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered sits #144 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,736 MAUDE reports spanning 1999–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 0.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.8 pp)
  • MALF 99.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Physical Resistance/Sticking is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

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What this shows Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered carries 17,736 MAUDE reports, ranked #144 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 17,612 (99.3%)
Injury 114 (0.6%)
5 (0.0%)
Other 5 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

17,543 (98.9%)
Other 80 (0.5%)
Required Intervention 79 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 13 (0.1%)
R 10 (0.1%)
H 4 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
O 2 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Physical Resistance/Sticking 3,141
Mechanical Jam 2,470
Complete Loss of Power 2,057
Unintended System Motion 1,979
Fail-Safe Problem 1,361
Excessive Heating 1,009
Noise, Audible 683
Detachment of Device or Device Component 600
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 593
Leak/Splash 543
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 505
Break 498
Intermittent Loss of Power 458
Material Fragmentation 413
Device Alarm System 346
Device Inoperable 317
Overheating of Device 312
Fluid/Blood Leak 297
Partial Blockage 279
Vibration 273

Yearly Trend

99
1999: 1
01
2001: 3
03
2003: 12
04
2004: 8
05
2005: 9
06
2006: 24
07
2007: 19
08
2008: 9
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 4
11
2011: 11
12
2012: 14
13
2013: 901
14
2014: 738
15
2015: 2,013
16
2016: 1,943
17
2017: 2,119
18
2018: 1,288
19
2019: 1,131
20
2020: 952
21
2021: 1,145
22
2022: 1,360
23
2023: 1,444
24
2024: 1,447
25
2025: 980
26
2026: 158

Related Entities for Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC 5,239
SYNTHES GMBH 4,728
DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS 4,582
SYNTHES OBERDORF 2,385
BIOMET MICROFIXATION 53
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 44

Event Locations

I 9,486 (53.5%)
8,155 (46.0%)
NO INFORMATION 61 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 22 (0.1%)
OTHER 8 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC vs SYNTHES GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered, 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 (17,736 here).

Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit 17,726 Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity 17,588 General Surgery Tray 17,567 Device, Incontinence, Mechanical/Hydraulic 17,504

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered 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 Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered; 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.