Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball
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 Ball LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#638 of 1000 · 1,120 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 1,120 reports
- RANK #638 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 1,097 injury-typed
- MALF 20 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2015: 97
- PHOTO Apparatus
Nearest event-volume peer: Apparatus, Suction, Patient Care (2 report gap)
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball sits #638 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,120 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 Ball carries 97.9% INJURY-coded reports, 67.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 97.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+67.7 pp)
- MALF 1.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-63.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 41% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pulmonic Valv…
Pulmonic Valved Conduit
1,133 reports
- Epidural Anes…
Epidural Anesthesia Kit
1,130 reports
- Apparatus
Apparatus, Suction, Patient Care
1,122 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball
1,120 reports
- Intervertebra…
Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft, Cervical
1,117 reports
- Dilator
Dilator, Catheter, Ureteral
1,108 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball carries 1,120 MAUDE reports, ranked #638 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 in 2025 (77) held close to the prior two-year average of 76.
Related Entities for Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US vs DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball: 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 (1,120 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 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 Ball 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 Ball; 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.