Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories
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 §888.3020 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Rod MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#93 of 1000 · 37,471 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 37,471 reports
- RANK #93 of 1000
- DEATH 115 death-typed
- INJ 24,831 injury-typed
- MALF 12,386 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2021: 4,111
- PHOTO Hexokinase, Glucose
Nearest event-volume peer: Hexokinase, Glucose (63 report gap)
Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories sits #93 of 1000 among tracked device types with 37,471 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Rod carries 66.3% INJURY-coded reports, 36.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 66.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+36.0 pp)
- MALF 33.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-31.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 25% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .
Rod in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Filter
Filter, Intravascular, Cardiovascular
38,320 reports
- Insulin Pump…
Insulin Pump Secondary Display
38,005 reports
- Hexokinase
Hexokinase, Glucose
37,534 reports
- Rod (this)
Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories
37,471 reports
- Replacement H…
Replacement Heart-Valve
37,100 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days
36,803 reports
What this shows Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories carries 37,471 MAUDE reports, ranked #93 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 (2,933) held close to the prior two-year average of 2,544.
Related Entities for Rod, Fixation, Intramedullary And Accessories
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Rod: 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 (37,471 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (115 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Rod 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 Rod; 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.