2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Posterior Cervical Screw System

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Posterior Cervical Screw System LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#467 of 1000 · 2,137 reports · 2015–2026

  • BOOK 2,137 reports
  • RANK #467 of 1000
  • DEATH 15 death-typed
  • INJ 1,411 injury-typed
  • MALF 711 malfunction
  • SPAN 2015–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 704
  • PHOTO Choledochoscope And A…

Nearest event-volume peer: Choledochoscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid (0 report gap)

Posterior Cervical Screw System sits #467 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,137 MAUDE reports spanning 2015–2026. 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 →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 66.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+35.6 pp)
  • MALF 33.3% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-31.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 33% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Posterior Cervical Screw System in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Posterior Cervical Screw System carries 2,137 MAUDE reports, ranked #467 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,411 (66.0%)
Malfunction 711 (33.3%)
Death 15 (0.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,236 (56.6%)
678 (31.1%)
Other 145 (6.6%)
Hospitalization 51 (2.3%)
R 30 (1.4%)
O 13 (0.6%)
H 11 (0.5%)
Death 11 (0.5%)
S 3 (0.1%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 729
Fracture 305
Break 292
Migration 273
Detachment of Device or Device Component 78
Insufficient Information 67
Device-Device Incompatibility 50
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 44
Unintended Movement 43
Torn Material 42
Material Integrity Problem 40
Material Separation 36
Mechanical Problem 28
Material Twisted/Bent 27
Patient Device Interaction Problem 27
Migration or Expulsion of Device 26
Device Slipped 25
Loose or Intermittent Connection 21
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 19
Compatibility Problem 15

Yearly Trend

15
2015: 4
16
2016: 73
17
2017: 99
18
2018: 127
19
2019: 214
20
2020: 236
21
2021: 704
22
2022: 175
23
2023: 131
24
2024: 206
25
2025: 157
26
2026: 11

Related Entities for Posterior Cervical Screw System

Event Locations

I 1,315 (61.5%)
775 (36.3%)
HOSPITAL 43 (2.0%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.2%)

Compare WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC vs OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Posterior Cervical Screw System, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,137 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (15 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Posterior Cervical Screw System 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 Posterior Cervical Screw System; 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.