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Motor, Surgical Instrument, Pneumatic 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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#651 of 1000 · 1,020 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 1,020 reports
  • RANK #651 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 60 injury-typed
  • MALF 929 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2011: 280
  • PHOTO Restraint, Protective

Nearest event-volume peer: Restraint, Protective (0 report gap)

Motor, Surgical Instrument, Pneumatic Powered sits #651 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,020 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 5.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-24.6 pp)
  • MALF 91.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+26.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Align is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 81% of location-tagged rows .

Motor in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Motor, Surgical Instrument, Pneumatic Powered carries 1,020 MAUDE reports, ranked #651 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 929 (91.1%)
Injury 60 (5.9%)
Other 29 (2.8%)
1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

905 (88.1%)
Other 81 (7.9%)
Required Intervention 23 (2.2%)
O 6 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 6 (0.6%)
L 1 (0.1%)
R 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Align 68
Break 49
Difficult to Open or Close 37
Detachment of Device or Device Component 19
Burst Container or Vessel 14
Material Split, Cut or Torn 13
Mechanical Problem 12
Detachment Of Device Component 7
Product Quality Problem 6
Overheating of Device 4
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3
Defective Device 3
Entrapment of Device 3
Mechanics Altered 3
Excessive Heating 2
Inflation Problem 2
Material Rupture 2
Unintended Ejection 2
Bent 1
Defective Component 1

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 1
99
1999: 12
00
2000: 53
01
2001: 47
02
2002: 54
03
2003: 28
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 25
06
2006: 60
07
2007: 33
08
2008: 8
09
2009: 11
10
2010: 35
11
2011: 280
12
2012: 48
13
2013: 34
14
2014: 26
15
2015: 43
16
2016: 29
17
2017: 45
18
2018: 46
19
2019: 15
20
2020: 15
21
2021: 9
22
2022: 13
23
2023: 6
24
2024: 19
25
2025: 8
26
2026: 10

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Top Manufacturers

STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 245
US SURGICAL PUERTO RICO 132
AESCULAP AG 16

Event Locations

827 (81.1%)
I 174 (17.1%)
HOSPITAL 12 (1.2%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.1%)

Compare STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO vs US SURGICAL PUERTO RICO →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, 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 (1,020 here).

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Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Motor 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; 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.