2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation

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 §888.3070 (Orthopedic panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#342 of 1000 · 4,392 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 4,392 reports
  • RANK #342 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 2,820 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,538 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 531
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Hypothermia, Intravenous, Cooling (3 report gap)

Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation sits #342 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,392 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 run above the device-type norm

Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation carries 64.2% INJURY-coded reports, 33.9pp 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 64.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+33.9 pp)
  • MALF 35.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-29.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH accounts for 21% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation carries 4,392 MAUDE reports, ranked #342 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,820 (64.2%)
Malfunction 1,538 (35.0%)
Other 27 (0.6%)
5 (0.1%)
Death 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 2,424 (51.0%)
1,036 (21.8%)
Other 678 (14.3%)
R 245 (5.2%)
Hospitalization 217 (4.6%)
H 56 (1.2%)
O 55 (1.2%)
Death 19 (0.4%)
Disability 16 (0.3%)
S 9 (0.2%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 980
Break 936
Insufficient Device Problem Information 290
Device Slipped 277
Fracture 219
Migration 191
Loose or Intermittent Connection 184
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 160
Migration or Expulsion of Device 143
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 138
No Apparent Adverse Event 138
Detachment Of Device Component 118
Mechanical Problem 98
Explanted 96
Detachment of Device or Device Component 87
Material Integrity Problem 87
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 86
Unintended Movement 84
Material Deformation 77
Material Separation 60

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 1
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 10
00
2000: 10
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 11
03
2003: 13
04
2004: 9
05
2005: 11
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 18
08
2008: 30
09
2009: 45
10
2010: 59
11
2011: 107
12
2012: 433
13
2013: 464
14
2014: 286
15
2015: 152
16
2016: 216
17
2017: 174
18
2018: 129
19
2019: 403
20
2020: 432
21
2021: 531
22
2022: 265
23
2023: 121
24
2024: 302
25
2025: 91
26
2026: 53

Reports fell to 91 in 2025, down from an average of 212 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation

Event Locations

2,439 (55.5%)
I 1,871 (42.6%)
HOSPITAL 58 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 13 (0.3%)
HOME 5 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)

Compare OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH vs SYNTHES GMBH →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation: 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 (4,392 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation 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 Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation; 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.