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Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered

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 Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#151 of 1000 · 18,194 reports · 1999–2026

  • BOOK 18,194 reports
  • RANK #151 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 121 injury-typed
  • MALF 18,063 malfunction
  • SPAN 1999–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 2,119
  • PHOTO Phakic Toric Intraocu…

Nearest event-volume peer: Phakic Toric Intraocular Lens (39 report gap)

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered sits #151 of 1000 among tracked device types with 18,194 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered carries 99.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 0.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.6 pp)
  • MALF 99.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Physical Resistance/Sticking is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 52% 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 18,194 MAUDE reports, ranked #151 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 18,063 (99.3%)
Injury 121 (0.7%)
5 (0.0%)
Other 5 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

17,979 (98.9%)
Other 87 (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 3,398
Mechanical Jam 2,830
Complete Loss of Power 2,258
Unintended System Motion 1,996
Fail-Safe Problem 1,361
Device Inoperable 1,345
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1,079
Excessive Heating 1,033
Break 848
Leak/Splash 817
Noise, Audible 782
Detachment of Device or Device Component 620
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 610
Intermittent Loss of Power 501
Material Fragmentation 423
Overheating of Device 395
Fluid/Blood Leak 391
Partial Blockage 390
Device Alarm System 351
Vibration 300

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: 4
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: 615

Reports in 2025 (980) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,446.

Related Entities for Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC 5,245
SYNTHES GMBH 5,115
DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS 4,582
SYNTHES OBERDORF 2,385
BIOMET MICROFIXATION 59
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 44

Event Locations

I 9,486 (52.1%)
8,610 (47.3%)
NO INFORMATION 61 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 25 (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 a comparable report-volume footprint

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Ac-Powered carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (18,194 here).

Phakic Toric Intraocular Lens 18,233 Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit 18,095 Device, Incontinence, Mechanical/Hydraulic 18,299 Humidifier, Respiratory Gas, 18,072

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.