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Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical

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 Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#688 of 1000 · 862 reports · 1999–2026

  • BOOK 862 reports
  • RANK #688 of 1000
  • DEATH 6 death-typed
  • INJ 762 injury-typed
  • MALF 94 malfunction
  • SPAN 1999–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 215
  • PHOTO Accessories, Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Catheter (3 report gap)

Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical sits #688 of 1000 among tracked device types with 862 MAUDE reports spanning 1999–2026. 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 88.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+58.0 pp)
  • MALF 10.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-53.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Patient-Device Incompatibility is 42% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .

Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical carries 862 MAUDE reports, ranked #688 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 762 (88.4%)
Malfunction 94 (10.9%)
Death 6 (0.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 682 (77.4%)
84 (9.5%)
Other 70 (7.9%)
R 10 (1.1%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.9%)
Life Threatening 7 (0.8%)
Death 6 (0.7%)
O 4 (0.5%)
D 3 (0.3%)
Disability 3 (0.3%)
H 2 (0.2%)
S 2 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Patient-Device Incompatibility 346
Use of Device Problem 342
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 40
Patient Data Problem 38
Patient Device Interaction Problem 9
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 8
Loss of or Failure to Bond 6
Output Problem 4
Biocompatibility 3
Insufficient Information 3
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Defective Device 2
Device Handling Problem 2
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 2
No Apparent Adverse Event 2
Overheating of Device 2
Product Quality Problem 2
Communication or Transmission Problem 1
Device Alarm System 1
Device Slipped 1

Yearly Trend

99
1999: 2
00
2000: 2
02
2002: 4
05
2005: 1
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 8
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 1
13
2013: 2
14
2014: 3
15
2015: 8
16
2016: 6
17
2017: 31
18
2018: 30
19
2019: 76
20
2020: 91
21
2021: 113
22
2022: 46
23
2023: 65
24
2024: 88
25
2025: 215
26
2026: 66

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Top Manufacturers

PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS 7

Event Locations

521 (60.4%)
I 314 (36.4%)
NO INFORMATION 19 (2.2%)
HOSPITAL 5 (0.6%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical, 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 (862 here).

Accessories, Catheter 859 Culture Media 866 Stent, Renal 857 Condylar Plate Fixation Implant 868

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.

Applicator, Absorbent Tipped, Non-Sterile 6 Cable, Electrode 6 Catheter, Straight 6 Device, Percutaneous Retrieval 6

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical 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 Recorder, Magnetic Tape, Medical; 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.