Prosthesis, Rib Replacement
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 §888.3070 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Prosthesis, Rib Replacement LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#651 of 1000 · 1,052 reports · 2005–2026
- BOOK 1,052 reports
- RANK #651 of 1000
- DEATH 15 death-typed
- INJ 907 injury-typed
- MALF 127 malfunction
- SPAN 2005–2026
- PEAK 2015: 174
- PHOTO Drill, Bone, Powered
Nearest event-volume peer: Drill, Bone, Powered (1 report gap)
Prosthesis, Rib Replacement sits #651 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,052 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. 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, Rib Replacement carries 86.2% INJURY-coded reports, 55.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.4% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.1 pp)
- INJ 86.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+55.9 pp)
- MALF 12.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-52.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES BRANDYWINE accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Rib Replacement in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Oximeter, Fiber-Optic
1,067 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Rib Replacement
1,052 reports
- Drill
Drill, Bone, Powered
1,051 reports
- System
System, Tomography, Computed, Emission
1,051 reports
- Holder
Holder, Needle, Gastroenterologic
1,038 reports
- Cannula
Cannula, Surgical, General & Plastic Surgery
1,037 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Rib Replacement carries 1,052 MAUDE reports, ranked #651 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 1 in 2025, down from an average of 12 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Prosthesis, Rib Replacement
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Rib Replacement: 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 (1,052 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (15 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis, Rib Replacement 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, Rib Replacement; 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.