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Pump, Portable, Aspiration (Manual Or Powered)

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 Pump, Portable, Aspiration LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#669 of 1000 · 956 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 956 reports
  • RANK #669 of 1000
  • DEATH 28 death-typed
  • INJ 66 injury-typed
  • MALF 745 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 399
  • PHOTO Blade, Scalpel

Nearest event-volume peer: Blade, Scalpel (2 report gap)

Pump, Portable, Aspiration (Manual Or Powered) sits #669 of 1000 among tracked device types with 956 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 2.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.4 pp)
  • INJ 6.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
  • MALF 77.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+13.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Battery Problem is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PENUMBRA, INC. accounts for 86% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Pump, Portable, Aspiration in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Pump, Portable, Aspiration (Manual Or Powered) carries 956 MAUDE reports, ranked #669 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 745 (77.9%)
Other 89 (9.3%)
Injury 66 (6.9%)
28 (2.9%)
Death 28 (2.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

480 (48.7%)
Other 403 (40.9%)
Death 33 (3.4%)
Required Intervention 18 (1.8%)
Hospitalization 14 (1.4%)
O 13 (1.3%)
R 13 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.5%)
L 4 (0.4%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Battery Problem 19
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 13
Premature Discharge of Battery 12
Melted 7
Suction Failure 7
Thermal Decomposition of Device 7
Device Emits Odor 6
Gas/Air Leak 6
Nonstandard Device 6
Smoking 6
Break 5
Charging Problem 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 4
Failure to Run on Battery 4
Air Leak 3
Crack 3
Defective Device 3
Device Inoperable 3
Failure to Charge 3
Infusion or Flow Problem 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
94
1994: 3
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 6
99
1999: 7
00
2000: 6
01
2001: 11
02
2002: 8
03
2003: 6
04
2004: 5
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 14
07
2007: 13
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 14
10
2010: 178
11
2011: 62
12
2012: 47
13
2013: 18
14
2014: 399
15
2015: 15
16
2016: 25
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 17
19
2019: 14
20
2020: 10
21
2021: 9
22
2022: 7
23
2023: 8
24
2024: 13
25
2025: 13
26
2026: 3

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Top Manufacturers

PENUMBRA, INC. 175
PENUMBRA INC. 28

Event Locations

537 (56.2%)
HOSPITAL 308 (32.2%)
I 65 (6.8%)
OTHER 13 (1.4%)
HOME 12 (1.3%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.2%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare PENUMBRA, INC. vs PENUMBRA INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pump, Portable, Aspiration, 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 (956 here).

Blade, Scalpel 954 Material, Tooth Shade, Resin 961 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 965 Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical… 969

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (28 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus, Nitric Oxide Delivery 28 Catheter 28 Over-The-Counter Automated External Defibri… 28 Catheter, Urological 29

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pump, Portable, Aspiration 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 Pump, Portable, Aspiration; 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.