2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument

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 §882.4560 (Neurology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#138 of 1000 · 20,328 reports · 2008–2026

  • BOOK 20,328 reports
  • RANK #138 of 1000
  • DEATH 13 death-typed
  • INJ 3,735 injury-typed
  • MALF 16,561 malfunction
  • SPAN 2008–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 3,344
  • PHOTO Reagents

Nearest event-volume peer: Reagents, 2019-Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid (186 report gap)

Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument sits #138 of 1000 among tracked device types with 20,328 MAUDE reports spanning 2008–2026. 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

Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument carries 81.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 16.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 18.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-11.9 pp)
  • MALF 81.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+16.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 12% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAKO SURGICAL CORP. accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .

Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument carries 20,328 MAUDE reports, ranked #138 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 16,561 (81.5%)
Injury 3,735 (18.4%)
13 (0.1%)
Death 13 (0.1%)
Other 6 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

12,680 (60.9%)
Other 3,609 (17.3%)
Hospitalization 2,172 (10.4%)
Required Intervention 1,490 (7.2%)
R 477 (2.3%)
O 224 (1.1%)
H 71 (0.3%)
Disability 40 (0.2%)
S 18 (0.1%)
Death 11 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.0%)
L 7 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 2,104
Mechanical Problem 1,886
Device Slipped 1,447
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1,410
Material Integrity Problem 1,282
Use of Device Problem 1,053
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 949
Insufficient Device Problem Information 914
Material Deformation 776
Imprecision 696
Human-Device Interface Problem 672
Fracture 637
Application Program Problem: Parameter Calculation Error 590
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 566
Computer Software Problem 561
Unintended Application Program Shut Down 501
Connection Problem 495
Non Reproducible Results 436
Unintended Movement 397
Malposition of Device 396

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 1
09
2009: 4
10
2010: 4
11
2011: 10
12
2012: 60
13
2013: 36
14
2014: 245
15
2015: 466
16
2016: 750
17
2017: 1,076
18
2018: 1,230
19
2019: 1,585
20
2020: 2,746
21
2021: 1,696
22
2022: 1,568
23
2023: 1,493
24
2024: 2,354
25
2025: 3,344
26
2026: 1,660

Reports rose to 3,344 in 2025, up from an average of 1,924 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument

Event Locations

11,636 (57.2%)
I 8,522 (41.9%)
HOSPITAL 113 (0.6%)
NO INFORMATION 30 (0.1%)
OTHER 26 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare MAKO SURGICAL CORP. vs BLUE BELT TECHNOLOGIES →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument: 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 (20,328 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument 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 Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument; 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.