Polymer Patient Examination Glove
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 §880.6250 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Polymer Patient Examination Glove LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#810 of 1000 · 635 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 635 reports
- RANK #810 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 134 injury-typed
- MALF 471 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2026: 272
- PHOTO Instrument
Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying (0 report gap)
Polymer Patient Examination Glove sits #810 of 1000 among tracked device types with 635 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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
Polymer Patient Examination Glove carries 74.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 9.3pp 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 21.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-9.2 pp)
- MALF 74.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+9.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP accounts for 76% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .
Polymer Patient Examination Glove in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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Polymer Patient Examination Glove
635 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Ligature Passing And Knot Tying
635 reports
- Table
Table, Surgical With Orthopedic Accessories, Ac-Powered
632 reports
What this shows Polymer Patient Examination Glove carries 635 MAUDE reports, ranked #810 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 73 in 2025, up from an average of 50 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Polymer Patient Examination Glove
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Polymer Patient Examination Glove carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (635 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Polymer Patient Examination Glove 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 Polymer Patient Examination Glove; 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.