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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

#726 of 1000 · 786 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 786 reports
  • RANK #726 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 149 injury-typed
  • MALF 568 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 1997: 56
  • PHOTO Device

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube (1 report gap)

Scissors, General, Surgical sits #726 of 1000 among tracked device types with 786 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 →

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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 19.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-11.5 pp)
  • MALF 72.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+7.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 48% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AESCULAP AG accounts for 33% 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 786 MAUDE reports, ranked #726 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 568 (72.3%)
Injury 149 (19.0%)
Other 43 (5.5%)
25 (3.2%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

483 (59.8%)
Other 149 (18.4%)
Required Intervention 129 (16.0%)
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 110
Material Fragmentation 27
Fracture 21
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 8
Delivered as Unsterile Product 8
Material Integrity Problem 7
Detachment Of Device Component 6
Detachment of Device or Device Component 6
Mechanical Problem 6
Failure to Cut 5
Material Separation 4
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 3
Inaccurate Information 3
Product Quality Problem 3
Component Missing 2
Defective Device 2
Device Fell 2
Dull, Blunt 2
Failure to Align 2

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: 4

Related Entities for Scissors, General, Surgical

Top Manufacturers

AESCULAP AG 71
UNK 29
CARDINAL HEALTH 28
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 26
AESCULAP AG 21
STRYKER ENDOSCOPY SAN JOSE 19
CAREFUSION 18

Event Locations

354 (45.0%)
HOSPITAL 219 (27.9%)
I 120 (15.3%)
INVALID DATA 42 (5.3%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 16 (2.0%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (1.8%)
OTHER 8 (1.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 5 (0.6%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 4 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.1%)

Compare AESCULAP AG vs UNK →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Scissors, General, Surgical, 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 (786 here).

Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube 787 Mesh 787 Electrocardiograph 788 Catheter, Nephrostomy 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.