2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer

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 Prosthesis LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#224 of 1000 · 8,981 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 8,981 reports
  • RANK #224 of 1000
  • DEATH 47 death-typed
  • INJ 7,943 injury-typed
  • MALF 963 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 924
  • PHOTO Controller

Nearest event-volume peer: Controller, Temperature, Cardiopulmonary Bypass (88 report gap)

Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer sits #224 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,981 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 →

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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 88.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+58.0 pp)
  • MALF 10.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-53.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS-MAHWAH accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer carries 8,981 MAUDE reports, ranked #224 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 7,943 (88.4%)
Malfunction 963 (10.7%)
Death 47 (0.5%)
14 (0.2%)
Other 14 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 4,586 (36.5%)
Hospitalization 3,056 (24.3%)
R 2,781 (22.1%)
Other 837 (6.7%)
H 676 (5.4%)
418 (3.3%)
O 94 (0.7%)
Death 50 (0.4%)
S 40 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 13 (0.1%)
Disability 12 (0.1%)
L 8 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,890
Insufficient Information 1,188
Fracture 717
Loss of Osseointegration 359
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 312
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 293
Unstable 256
Detachment of Device or Device Component 240
Break 206
Naturally Worn 184
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 172
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 114
Migration or Expulsion of Device 95
Loose or Intermittent Connection 90
Mechanical Problem 88
Patient Device Interaction Problem 85
Patient-Device Incompatibility 80
Migration 79
Degraded 71
Osseointegration Problem 66

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
96
1996: 4
97
1997: 5
98
1998: 6
99
1999: 6
00
2000: 8
01
2001: 18
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 22
04
2004: 16
05
2005: 26
06
2006: 32
07
2007: 37
08
2008: 44
09
2009: 66
10
2010: 110
11
2011: 119
12
2012: 173
13
2013: 194
14
2014: 406
15
2015: 333
16
2016: 369
17
2017: 543
18
2018: 614
19
2019: 759
20
2020: 749
21
2021: 770
22
2022: 892
23
2023: 746
24
2024: 855
25
2025: 924
26
2026: 128

Related Entities for Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer

Event Locations

4,764 (53.0%)
I 3,759 (41.9%)
HOSPITAL 440 (4.9%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (0.1%)
HOME 4 (0.0%)
OTHER 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS-MAHWAH vs ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, 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 (8,981 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (47 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis 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; 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.