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Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal System, Fusion

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 Metal/Polymer Spinal System LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#692 of 1000 · 848 reports · 2005–2026

  • BOOK 848 reports
  • RANK #692 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 624 injury-typed
  • MALF 193 malfunction
  • SPAN 2005–2026
  • PEAK 2010: 119
  • PHOTO Instrument

Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Surgical, Disposable (1 report gap)

Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal System, Fusion sits #692 of 1000 among tracked device types with 848 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 73.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+43.1 pp)
  • MALF 22.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-41.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Insufficient Information is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ZIMMER GMBH accounts for 77% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal System in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal System, Fusion carries 848 MAUDE reports, ranked #692 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 624 (73.6%)
Malfunction 193 (22.8%)
Other 26 (3.1%)
5 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 294 (27.3%)
Hospitalization 233 (21.7%)
R 217 (20.2%)
181 (16.8%)
Other 136 (12.7%)
H 4 (0.4%)
O 3 (0.3%)
Disability 3 (0.3%)
S 2 (0.2%)
L 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Insufficient Information 36
Break 35
Loose or Intermittent Connection 30
Fracture 24
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 22
Device Slipped 13
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 9
Malposition of Device 6
Migration or Expulsion of Device 5
Patient Device Interaction Problem 5
Cut In Material 4
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 3
Device-Device Incompatibility 2
Difficult to Insert 2
Mechanical Jam 2
No Apparent Adverse Event 2
Collapse 1
Component or Accessory Incompatibility 1
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1
Device Damaged by Another Device 1

Yearly Trend

05
2005: 1
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 45
08
2008: 101
09
2009: 109
10
2010: 119
11
2011: 60
12
2012: 66
13
2013: 58
14
2014: 46
15
2015: 38
16
2016: 79
17
2017: 28
18
2018: 29
19
2019: 8
20
2020: 15
21
2021: 7
22
2022: 12
23
2023: 2
24
2024: 8
25
2025: 8
26
2026: 4

Related Entities for Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal System, Fusion

Top Manufacturers

ZIMMER GMBH 295
SYNTHES (USA) 42
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK 16
ZIMMER, INC. 15
SYNTHES MONUMENT 14

Event Locations

532 (62.7%)
I 184 (21.7%)
HOSPITAL 103 (12.1%)
OTHER 22 (2.6%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.5%)
HOME 2 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.1%)

Compare ZIMMER GMBH vs SYNTHES (USA) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal 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 (848 here).

Instrument, Surgical, Disposable 849 Laparoscopic Contraceptive Tubal Occlusion… 847 Digital Breast Tomosynthesis 846 Heat-Exchanger, Cardiopulmonary Bypass 845

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Posterior Metal/Polymer Spinal 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 Metal/Polymer Spinal 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.