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Probe

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 Probe LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#821 of 1000 · 582 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 582 reports
  • RANK #821 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 84 injury-typed
  • MALF 490 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 69
  • PHOTO Cable

Nearest event-volume peer: Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, (Including Connector) (3 report gap)

Probe sits #821 of 1000 among tracked device types with 582 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 14.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.0 pp)
  • MALF 84.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 59% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SPINE INC accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Probe in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Probe carries 582 MAUDE reports, ranked #821 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 490 (84.2%)
Injury 84 (14.4%)
Other 5 (0.9%)
3 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

457 (78.3%)
Other 84 (14.4%)
Required Intervention 33 (5.7%)
R 3 (0.5%)
Disability 2 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.3%)
O 1 (0.2%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 302
Fracture 79
Material Twisted/Bent 38
Material Deformation 20
Bent 19
Entrapment of Device 11
Material Fragmentation 7
Device-Device Incompatibility 5
Material Separation 5
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 3
Crack 3
Detachment Of Device Component 3
Detachment of Device or Device Component 3
Material Integrity Problem 3
Material Split, Cut or Torn 3
Component Missing 2
Defective Device 2
Difficult to Remove 2
Illegible Information 2
Mechanical Problem 2

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
93
1993: 3
94
1994: 1
95
1995: 1
00
2000: 2
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 3
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 3
08
2008: 1
09
2009: 7
10
2010: 10
11
2011: 10
12
2012: 2
13
2013: 13
14
2014: 11
15
2015: 33
16
2016: 44
17
2017: 58
18
2018: 63
19
2019: 69
20
2020: 39
21
2021: 35
22
2022: 41
23
2023: 47
24
2024: 36
25
2025: 37
26
2026: 3

Related Entities for Probe

Top Manufacturers

DEPUY SPINE INC 158
ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE INC. 88
DEPUY SYNTHES SPINE 53
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC 50
SYNTHES GMBH 16
ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE, INC. 12

Event Locations

I 282 (48.5%)
224 (38.5%)
HOSPITAL 67 (11.5%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (1.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare DEPUY SPINE INC vs ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Probe, 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 (582 here).

Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, 585 Syringe, Irrigating 577 Blood/Plasma Collection Device For Dna Test… 576 Centrifuges For Clinical Use 588

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 Probe 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 Probe; 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.