2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Sensor HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#35 of 1000 · 114,527 reports · 2017–2026

  • BOOK 114,527 reports
  • RANK #35 of 1000
  • DEATH 12 death-typed
  • INJ 17,161 injury-typed
  • MALF 97,347 malfunction
  • SPAN 2017–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 69,065
  • PHOTO Electrosurgical

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories (10 report gap)

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated sits #35 of 1000 among tracked device types with 114,527 MAUDE reports spanning 2017–2026. 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 15.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.5 pp)
  • MALF 85.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+20.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 80% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 67% of location-tagged rows .

Sensor in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated carries 114,527 MAUDE reports, ranked #35 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 97,347 (85.0%)
Injury 17,161 (15.0%)
Death 12 (0.0%)
4 (0.0%)
Other 3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

98,147 (85.2%)
Required Intervention 14,790 (12.8%)
Other 852 (0.7%)
Hospitalization 679 (0.6%)
R 626 (0.5%)
H 116 (0.1%)
O 16 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 12 (0.0%)
Death 11 (0.0%)
Disability 5 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 95,267
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 4,085
Device Displays Incorrect Message 4,039
Unable to Obtain Readings 3,779
High Readings 3,209
Low Readings 2,644
Application Program Problem 1,393
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1,194
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,090
Product Quality Problem 999
Device Alarm System 701
Failure to Power Up 309
No Device Output 123
Material Twisted/Bent 53
Failure to Fire 52
Difficult to Insert 42
Insufficient Information 41
Premature Discharge of Battery 41
Computer Software Problem 34
No Display/Image 30

Yearly Trend

17
2017: 63
18
2018: 2,094
19
2019: 3,231
20
2020: 7,222
21
2021: 69,065
22
2022: 15,542
23
2023: 10,607
24
2024: 4,934
25
2025: 1,591
26
2026: 178

Related Entities for Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive, Factory-Calibrated, User-Initiated

Event Locations

I 76,367 (66.7%)
38,065 (33.2%)
NO INFORMATION 95 (0.1%)

Compare ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC vs ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Sensor, 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 (114,527 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (12 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Sensor 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 Sensor; 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.