2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable

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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §890.5710 (Physical Medicine panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#341 of 1000 · 4,404 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 4,404 reports
  • RANK #341 of 1000
  • DEATH 11 death-typed
  • INJ 2,227 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,019 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2008: 804
  • PHOTO Orthosis

Nearest event-volume peer: Orthosis, Spondylolisthesis Spinal Fixation (12 report gap)

Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable sits #341 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,404 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 sit below the device-type norm

Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable carries 23.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 41.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 50.6% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+20.3 pp)
  • MALF 23.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-41.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CARDINAL HEALTH accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable carries 4,404 MAUDE reports, ranked #341 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,227 (50.6%)
Other 1,106 (25.1%)
Malfunction 1,019 (23.1%)
41 (0.9%)
Death 11 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,750 (37.4%)
1,625 (34.7%)
Other 844 (18.0%)
R 230 (4.9%)
Hospitalization 132 (2.8%)
S 28 (0.6%)
Disability 24 (0.5%)
O 22 (0.5%)
Death 10 (0.2%)
H 7 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 953
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 733
Insufficient Device Problem Information 627
Use of Device Problem 348
Leak/Splash 323
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 299
Burst Container or Vessel 279
Overheating of Device 125
Fluid/Blood Leak 116
Patient-Device Incompatibility 104
Break 102
Temperature Problem 96
Excessive Heating 90
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 89
Nonstandard Device 83
Difficult to Remove 66
Material Rupture 63
Defective Device 45
Explosion 44
Insufficient Heating 44

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 3
94
1994: 6
95
1995: 8
96
1996: 9
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 12
99
1999: 4
00
2000: 22
01
2001: 21
02
2002: 22
03
2003: 29
04
2004: 36
05
2005: 49
06
2006: 52
07
2007: 211
08
2008: 804
09
2009: 210
10
2010: 58
11
2011: 70
12
2012: 53
13
2013: 40
14
2014: 33
15
2015: 193
16
2016: 213
17
2017: 234
18
2018: 262
19
2019: 632
20
2020: 248
21
2021: 142
22
2022: 202
23
2023: 184
24
2024: 112
25
2025: 66
26
2026: 156

Reports fell to 66 in 2025, down from an average of 148 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable

Event Locations

2,190 (49.7%)
I 1,655 (37.6%)
HOSPITAL 319 (7.2%)
HOME 94 (2.1%)
NO INFORMATION 66 (1.5%)
OTHER 31 (0.7%)
UNKNOWN 22 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 12 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare CARDINAL HEALTH vs BECTON DICKINSON →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable: 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 (4,404 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable 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 Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable; 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.