Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal
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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §888.3360 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#435 of 1000 · 2,683 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 2,683 reports
- RANK #435 of 1000
- DEATH 4 death-typed
- INJ 2,029 injury-typed
- MALF 610 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2019: 415
- PHOTO Intraocular Pressure…
Nearest event-volume peer: Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant (12 report gap)
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal sits #435 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,683 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal carries 75.6% INJURY-coded reports, 45.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 75.6% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+45.3 pp)
- MALF 22.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-42.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Insufficient Device Problem Information is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS-MAHWAH accounts for 26% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 66% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Vehicle
Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled
2,715 reports
- Bur
Bur, Ear, Nose And Throat
2,714 reports
- Forceps
Forceps, Biopsy, Non-Electric
2,705 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal
2,683 reports
- Intraocular P…
Intraocular Pressure Lowering Implant
2,671 reports
- System
System, Imaging, Pulsed Doppler, Ultrasonic
2,659 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal carries 2,683 MAUDE reports, ranked #435 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 fell to 29 in 2025, down from an average of 96 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS-MAHWAH vs DEPUY IRELAND - 9616671 →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal: 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 (2,683 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal 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 Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal; 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.