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Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical Instruments

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 Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical… LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#670 of 1000 · 980 reports · 2007–2026

  • BOOK 980 reports
  • RANK #670 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 143 injury-typed
  • MALF 827 malfunction
  • SPAN 2007–2026
  • PEAK 2012: 113
  • PHOTO Container, Sharps

Nearest event-volume peer: Container, Sharps (1 report gap)

Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical Instruments sits #670 of 1000 among tracked device types with 980 MAUDE reports spanning 2007–2026. 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 → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical… carries 84.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 19.6pp 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 14.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-15.7 pp)
  • MALF 84.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+19.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 22% of coded problems · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .

Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical… in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical Instruments carries 980 MAUDE reports, ranked #670 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 827 (84.4%)
Injury 143 (14.6%)
6 (0.6%)
Death 3 (0.3%)
Other 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

840 (85.3%)
Required Intervention 85 (8.6%)
Other 44 (4.5%)
R 6 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 5 (0.5%)
Death 3 (0.3%)
L 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 215
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 108
Detachment Of Device Component 103
Device Displays Incorrect Message 81
Component Falling 61
Fracture 48
Device Inoperable 47
Detachment of Device or Device Component 45
Use of Device Problem 38
Material Fragmentation 33
Melted 29
Loss of Power 25
Failure to Cut 17
Insufficient Device Problem Information 17
Device Stops Intermittently 16
Energy Output To Patient Tissue Incorrect 16
Device, removal of (non-implant) 15
Overheating of Device 15
Self-Activation or Keying 14
Thermal Decomposition of Device 14

Yearly Trend

07
2007: 17
08
2008: 25
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 33
11
2011: 58
12
2012: 113
13
2013: 111
14
2014: 63
15
2015: 93
16
2016: 72
17
2017: 87
18
2018: 56
19
2019: 45
20
2020: 28
21
2021: 40
22
2022: 31
23
2023: 16
24
2024: 19
25
2025: 44
26
2026: 17

Reports rose to 44 in 2025, up from an average of 18 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic Surgical Instruments

Event Locations

567 (57.9%)
I 285 (29.1%)
HOSPITAL 90 (9.2%)
NO INFORMATION 36 (3.7%)
OTHER 2 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic 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 (980 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic 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 Single-Use Reprocessed Ultrasonic 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.