Punch, Surgical
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 §878.4800 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Punch, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#756 of 1000 · 756 reports · 1995–2026
- BOOK 756 reports
- RANK #756 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 72 injury-typed
- MALF 679 malfunction
- SPAN 1995–2026
- PEAK 2020: 86
- PHOTO Mesh
Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator (0 report gap)
Punch, Surgical sits #756 of 1000 among tracked device types with 756 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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
Punch, Surgical carries 89.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 25.0pp 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 9.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.8 pp)
- MALF 89.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+25.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 37% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 58% of location-tagged rows .
Punch, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Enzyme Linked…
Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay, Rubella
761 reports
- Punch (this)
Punch, Surgical
756 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator
756 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Shoulder, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer + Additive, Cemented
755 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Balloon, Transcervical
753 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Balloon Type
751 reports
What this shows Punch, Surgical carries 756 MAUDE reports, ranked #756 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 in 2025 (46) held close to the prior two-year average of 46.
Related Entities for Punch, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Punch, Surgical carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (756 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Punch, Surgical 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 Punch, Surgical; 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.