Reamer
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 §888.4540 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Reamer MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#110 of 1000 · 29,419 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 29,419 reports
- RANK #110 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 1,217 injury-typed
- MALF 28,156 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2021: 4,802
- PHOTO Drill
Nearest event-volume peer: Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece (364 report gap)
Reamer sits #110 of 1000 among tracked device types with 29,419 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Reamer carries 95.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.9pp 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 4.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.2 pp)
- MALF 95.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Failure to Cut is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 75% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Reamer in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Bronchoscope
Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
31,113 reports
- Wheelchair
Wheelchair, Powered
30,542 reports
- Dialysate Con…
Dialysate Concentrate For Hemodialysis (Liquid Or Powder)
30,008 reports
- Drill
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
29,783 reports
- Reamer (this)
Reamer
29,419 reports
- Motor
Motor, Drill, Electric
28,221 reports
What this shows Reamer carries 29,419 MAUDE reports, ranked #110 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 1,056 in 2025, down from an average of 4,574 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Reamer
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Reamer: 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 (29,419 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Reamer 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 Reamer; 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.