2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Protector, Ostomy

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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §876.5900 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Protector, Ostomy MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#104 of 1000 · 32,254 reports · 2000–2026

  • BOOK 32,254 reports
  • RANK #104 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 2,008 injury-typed
  • MALF 30,237 malfunction
  • SPAN 2000–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 16,647
  • PHOTO Monitor

Nearest event-volume peer: Monitor, Physiological, Patient(With Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms) (26 report gap)

Protector, Ostomy sits #104 of 1000 among tracked device types with 32,254 MAUDE reports spanning 2000–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Protector, Ostomy carries 93.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 6.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-24.1 pp)
  • MALF 93.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+28.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Malposition of Device is 84% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CONVATEC DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INC accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Protector, Ostomy in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Protector, Ostomy carries 32,254 MAUDE reports, ranked #104 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 30,237 (93.7%)
Injury 2,008 (6.2%)
5 (0.0%)
Other 3 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

30,657 (95.1%)
Required Intervention 1,247 (3.9%)
Other 290 (0.9%)
R 27 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 21 (0.1%)
Death 8 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Malposition of Device 29,495
Positioning Problem 1,920
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,211
Fluid/Blood Leak 793
Human-Device Interface Problem 290
Material Too Rigid or Stiff 254
Material Disintegration 218
Insufficient Device Problem Information 155
Difficult to Remove 152
Sharp Edges 102
Leak/Splash 81
Material Erosion 57
Positioning Failure 53
Increased Sensitivity 51
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 49
Patient-Device Incompatibility 49
Material Separation 45
Complete Blockage 42
Device Handling Problem 42
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 30

Yearly Trend

00
2000: 1
01
2001: 1
05
2005: 1
06
2006: 5
10
2010: 1
12
2012: 1
13
2013: 232
14
2014: 953
15
2015: 527
16
2016: 196
17
2017: 36
18
2018: 2,142
19
2019: 16,647
20
2020: 8,667
21
2021: 1,144
22
2022: 547
23
2023: 360
24
2024: 295
25
2025: 321
26
2026: 177

Reports in 2025 (321) held close to the prior two-year average of 328.

Related Entities for Protector, Ostomy

Event Locations

18,132 (56.2%)
I 14,101 (43.7%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (0.0%)
HOSPITAL 4 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare CONVATEC DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INC vs CONVATEC DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Protector, Ostomy: 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 (32,254 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Protector, Ostomy 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 Protector, Ostomy; 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.