2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Separator, Automated, Blood Cell And Plasma, Therapeutic

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 Separator LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#427 of 1000 · 2,769 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,769 reports
  • RANK #427 of 1000
  • DEATH 106 death-typed
  • INJ 624 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,471 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2011: 481
  • PHOTO Radioimmunoassay

Nearest event-volume peer: Radioimmunoassay, Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (2 report gap)

Separator, Automated, Blood Cell And Plasma, Therapeutic sits #427 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,769 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Separator carries 53.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 11.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 3.8% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.3 pp)
  • INJ 22.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-7.8 pp)
  • MALF 53.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-11.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TERUMO BCT accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .

Separator in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Separator, Automated, Blood Cell And Plasma, Therapeutic carries 2,769 MAUDE reports, ranked #427 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,471 (53.1%)
Injury 624 (22.5%)
Other 426 (15.4%)
142 (5.1%)
Death 106 (3.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,935 (65.1%)
421 (14.2%)
Required Intervention 302 (10.2%)
R 139 (4.7%)
O 65 (2.2%)
Hospitalization 63 (2.1%)
Death 27 (0.9%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.5%)
H 3 (0.1%)
L 3 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 701
Insufficient Device Problem Information 575
High Test Results 332
Device Displays Incorrect Message 216
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 172
Inadequate User Interface 164
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 155
Data Problem 132
Fluid/Blood Leak 132
Patient Data Problem 104
Use of Device Problem 101
Air Leak 92
No Apparent Adverse Event 88
Patient-Device Incompatibility 78
Excess Flow or Over-Infusion 64
Leak/Splash 53
Nonstandard Device 51
Incorrect Software Programming Calculations 39
Device Alarm System 35
Break 32

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 6
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 9
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 4
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 4
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 7
07
2007: 10
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 18
10
2010: 132
11
2011: 481
12
2012: 372
13
2013: 96
14
2014: 128
15
2015: 306
16
2016: 206
17
2017: 169
18
2018: 55
19
2019: 72
20
2020: 135
21
2021: 63
22
2022: 42
23
2023: 132
24
2024: 161
25
2025: 71
26
2026: 45

Reports fell to 71 in 2025, down from an average of 147 in the two years before.

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Top Manufacturers

TERUMO BCT 1,682

Event Locations

1,650 (59.6%)
I 993 (35.9%)
HOSPITAL 75 (2.7%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (0.6%)
OTHER 15 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
BLOOD BANK 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Separator: 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 (2,769 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (106 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Separator 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 Separator; 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.