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Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-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

#439 of 1000 · 2,458 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,458 reports
  • RANK #439 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 1,898 injury-typed
  • MALF 536 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 273
  • PHOTO Gauze/Sponge

Nearest event-volume peer: Gauze/Sponge, Internal, X-Ray Detectable (15 report gap)

Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer sits #439 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,458 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 77.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+46.8 pp)
  • MALF 21.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-42.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 43% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% 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, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer carries 2,458 MAUDE reports, ranked #439 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,898 (77.2%)
Malfunction 536 (21.8%)
Other 18 (0.7%)
5 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 888 (26.4%)
Hospitalization 726 (21.6%)
R 719 (21.4%)
570 (16.9%)
Other 259 (7.7%)
H 146 (4.3%)
O 39 (1.2%)
Disability 13 (0.4%)
S 3 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 567
Fracture 250
Insufficient Information 174
Break 167
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 140
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 95
Migration 42
Naturally Worn 39
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 37
Unstable 37
Loose or Intermittent Connection 36
Difficult to Insert 30
Crack 29
Device Appears to Trigger Rejection 26
Migration or Expulsion of Device 26
Malposition of Device 24
Mechanical Jam 22
Positioning Failure 21
Flaked 19
Loss of Osseointegration 18

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 1
97
1997: 1
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 14
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 9
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 4
09
2009: 21
10
2010: 58
11
2011: 114
12
2012: 83
13
2013: 79
14
2014: 66
15
2015: 57
16
2016: 107
17
2017: 113
18
2018: 159
19
2019: 177
20
2020: 273
21
2021: 240
22
2022: 257
23
2023: 231
24
2024: 172
25
2025: 176
26
2026: 15

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

Event Locations

1,376 (56.0%)
I 1,031 (41.9%)
HOSPITAL 33 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (0.3%)
OTHER 7 (0.3%)
HOME 2 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 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.

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.