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Scissors, General, Surgical

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 Scissors, General, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#737 of 1000 · 795 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 795 reports
  • RANK #737 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 150 injury-typed
  • MALF 576 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 1997: 56
  • PHOTO Enteroscope And Acces…

Nearest event-volume peer: Enteroscope And Accessories (1 report gap)

Scissors, General, Surgical sits #737 of 1000 among tracked device types with 795 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 sit below the device-type norm

Scissors, General, Surgical carries 18.9% INJURY-coded reports, 11.4pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 18.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-11.4 pp)
  • MALF 72.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+7.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 39% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AESCULAP AG accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 45% of location-tagged rows .

Scissors, General, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Scissors, General, Surgical carries 795 MAUDE reports, ranked #737 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 576 (72.5%)
Injury 150 (18.9%)
Other 43 (5.4%)
25 (3.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

490 (60.0%)
Other 151 (18.5%)
Required Intervention 129 (15.8%)
R 17 (2.1%)
Hospitalization 16 (2.0%)
Disability 7 (0.9%)
S 4 (0.5%)
L 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 341
Tip breakage 96
Detachment Of Device Component 69
Device, removal of (non-implant) 40
Material Fragmentation 35
Device, or device fragments remain in patient 31
Component Falling 30
Fracture 30
Material Separation 27
Device Or Device Fragments Location Unknown 21
Dull, Blunt 21
Component Missing 19
Failure to Cut 18
Component(s), broken 17
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 16
Material Integrity Problem 13
Replace 12
Detachment of Device or Device Component 11
Delivered as Unsterile Product 9
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 6
94
1994: 19
95
1995: 11
96
1996: 23
97
1997: 56
98
1998: 41
99
1999: 12
00
2000: 13
01
2001: 15
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 17
04
2004: 28
05
2005: 33
06
2006: 25
07
2007: 48
08
2008: 33
09
2009: 37
10
2010: 41
11
2011: 28
12
2012: 16
13
2013: 28
14
2014: 23
15
2015: 15
16
2016: 27
17
2017: 18
18
2018: 25
19
2019: 39
20
2020: 21
21
2021: 17
22
2022: 16
23
2023: 7
24
2024: 18
25
2025: 19
26
2026: 13

Reports rose to 19 in 2025, up from an average of 13 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Scissors, General, Surgical

Top Manufacturers

AESCULAP AG 72
UNK 29
CARDINAL HEALTH 28
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 26
AESCULAP AG 21
STRYKER ENDOSCOPY SAN JOSE 19
CAREFUSION 18

Event Locations

361 (45.4%)
HOSPITAL 220 (27.7%)
I 120 (15.1%)
INVALID DATA 42 (5.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 16 (2.0%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (1.8%)
OTHER 8 (1.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 6 (0.8%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 4 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.1%)

Compare AESCULAP AG vs UNK →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Scissors, General, Surgical: 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 (795 here).

Enteroscope And Accessories 796 Electrode, Electrosurgical 798 Heparin, Vascular Access Flush 800 Stimulator 790

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Scissors, General, 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 Scissors, General, 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.