2018 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Patellar Resurfacing, Uncemented

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Prosthesis LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#473 of 1000 · 2,066 reports · 1992–2018

  • BOOK 2,066 reports
  • RANK #473 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 1,886 injury-typed
  • MALF 102 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2018
  • PEAK 2008: 171
  • PHOTO Device, Anti-Snoring

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Anti-Snoring (3 report gap)

Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Patellar Resurfacing, Uncemented sits #473 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,066 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2018. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 91.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+60.8 pp)
  • MALF 4.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-59.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Loose or Intermittent Connection is 67% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. accounts for 67% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 49% 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, Hemi-, Patellar Resurfacing, Uncemented carries 2,066 MAUDE reports, ranked #473 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,886 (91.3%)
Malfunction 102 (4.9%)
Other 49 (2.4%)
27 (1.3%)
Death 2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,585 (69.6%)
Hospitalization 235 (10.3%)
R 187 (8.2%)
139 (6.1%)
Other 90 (4.0%)
O 12 (0.5%)
S 7 (0.3%)
Disability 7 (0.3%)
Invalid Data 7 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.1%)
Death 2 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Loose or Intermittent Connection 4
Noise, Audible 1
Protective Measures Problem 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 40
93
1993: 152
94
1994: 138
95
1995: 94
96
1996: 128
97
1997: 167
98
1998: 156
99
1999: 59
00
2000: 24
01
2001: 44
02
2002: 31
03
2003: 37
04
2004: 32
05
2005: 69
06
2006: 104
07
2007: 80
08
2008: 171
09
2009: 153
10
2010: 147
11
2011: 123
12
2012: 54
13
2013: 39
14
2014: 13
15
2015: 6
18
2018: 5

Related Entities for Prosthesis, Knee, Hemi-, Patellar Resurfacing, Uncemented

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 1,003 (48.5%)
929 (45.0%)
INVALID DATA 58 (2.8%)
HOME 24 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 19 (0.9%)
OTHER 11 (0.5%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (0.4%)
I 7 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. vs ZIMMER, 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 (2,066 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 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.