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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §868.5630 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Nebulizer LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#422 of 1000 · 2,847 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 2,847 reports
- RANK #422 of 1000
- DEATH 43 death-typed
- INJ 257 injury-typed
- MALF 2,401 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2017: 256
- PHOTO Stent
Nearest event-volume peer: Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting (1 report gap)
Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface) sits #422 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,847 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Nebulizer carries 9.0% INJURY-coded reports, 21.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.5% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.0 pp)
- INJ 9.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-21.3 pp)
- MALF 84.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+19.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Failure to Deliver is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 88% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .
Nebulizer in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Lithotriptor
Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical
2,875 reports
- Pin
Pin, Fixation, Smooth
2,868 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
2,859 reports
- Nebulizer (this)
Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)
2,847 reports
- Stent
Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting
2,846 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable
2,835 reports
What this shows Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface) carries 2,847 MAUDE reports, ranked #422 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 193 in 2025, up from an average of 105 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nebulizer: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,847 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (43 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.