Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage
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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §864.9700 (Hematology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#985 of 1000 · 383 reports · 1992–2020
- BOOK 383 reports
- RANK #985 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 28 injury-typed
- MALF 326 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2020
- PEAK 2006: 127
- PHOTO Scissors, Ophthalmic
Nearest event-volume peer: Scissors, Ophthalmic (2 report gap)
Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage sits #985 of 1000 among tracked device types with 383 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2020. 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage carries 7.3% INJURY-coded reports, 23.0pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
- INJ 7.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.0 pp)
- MALF 85.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP. accounts for 47% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 95% of location-tagged rows .
Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Blood Pump Fo…
Blood Pump For Ecmo, Long-Term (> 6 Hours) Use
386 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Cholangiography
386 reports
- Indicator
Indicator, Physical/Chemical Sterilization Process
386 reports
- Scissors
Scissors, Ophthalmic
385 reports
- Refrigerator (this)
Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage
383 reports
- System
System, Test, Vitamin D
379 reports
What this shows Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage carries 383 MAUDE reports, ranked #985 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 rose to 3 in 2019, up from an average of 1 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage: 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 (383 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage 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 Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage; 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.