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Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)

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 Nebulizer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#424 of 1000 · 2,671 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,671 reports
  • RANK #424 of 1000
  • DEATH 42 death-typed
  • INJ 248 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,239 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 256
  • PHOTO Prosthesis, Penile

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Penile (7 report gap)

Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface) sits #424 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,671 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 1.6% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.1 pp)
  • INJ 9.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-21.2 pp)
  • MALF 83.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Deliver is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 94% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .

Nebulizer in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface) carries 2,671 MAUDE reports, ranked #424 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,239 (83.8%)
Injury 248 (9.3%)
Other 90 (3.4%)
52 (1.9%)
Death 42 (1.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,149 (78.9%)
Other 285 (10.5%)
Required Intervention 84 (3.1%)
Hospitalization 80 (2.9%)
Death 43 (1.6%)
R 28 (1.0%)
Life Threatening 23 (0.8%)
O 9 (0.3%)
L 8 (0.3%)
Disability 6 (0.2%)
H 5 (0.2%)
S 5 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Deliver 379
Leak/Splash 135
Connection Problem 121
Break 75
Infusion or Flow Problem 72
Disconnection 62
Defective Device 46
Fitting Problem 45
No Flow 40
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 36
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 32
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 31
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 30
Fluid/Blood Leak 28
Use of Device Problem 28
Mechanical Problem 27
Insufficient Information 25
Detachment of Device or Device Component 21
Inaccurate Delivery 21
Improper Flow or Infusion 20

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 9
95
1995: 6
96
1996: 6
97
1997: 6
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 17
00
2000: 17
01
2001: 9
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 11
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 26
08
2008: 11
09
2009: 15
10
2010: 37
11
2011: 237
12
2012: 138
13
2013: 217
14
2014: 123
15
2015: 166
16
2016: 201
17
2017: 256
18
2018: 162
19
2019: 185
20
2020: 117
21
2021: 161
22
2022: 55
23
2023: 107
24
2024: 102
25
2025: 193
26
2026: 25

Related Entities for Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 1,170
RESPIRONICS, INC. 78

Event Locations

1,316 (49.3%)
I 1,020 (38.2%)
NO INFORMATION 148 (5.5%)
HOSPITAL 115 (4.3%)
HOME 40 (1.5%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 7 (0.3%)
NURSING HOME 6 (0.2%)
OTHER 5 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 1 (0.0%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs RESPIRONICS, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nebulizer, 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 (2,671 here).

Prosthesis, Penile 2,664 Catheter And Tip, Suction 2,683 Forceps, Biopsy, Non-Electric 2,688 Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal 2,654

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (42 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial 42 Implant, Endosseous, Root-Form 42 Bath, Hydro-Massage 43 Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered 41

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Nebulizer 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 Nebulizer; 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.