Slide Stainer, Automated
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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §864.3800 (Pathology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Slide Stainer, Automated LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#580 of 1000 · 1,446 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 1,446 reports
- RANK #580 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 68 injury-typed
- MALF 1,328 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2020: 436
- PHOTO Fluid Jet Removal Sys…
Nearest event-volume peer: Fluid Jet Removal System (3 report gap)
Slide Stainer, Automated sits #580 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,446 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. 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 run above the device-type norm
Slide Stainer, Automated carries 91.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 27.0pp above 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 4.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.6 pp)
- MALF 91.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+27.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECKMAN COULTER, INC. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 55% of location-tagged rows .
Slide Stainer, Automated in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Indicator
Indicator, Biological Sterilization Process
1,469 reports
- Bed
Bed, Air Fluidized
1,460 reports
- Fluid Jet Rem…
Fluid Jet Removal System
1,449 reports
- Slide Stainer (this)
Slide Stainer, Automated
1,446 reports
- Bariatric Bed
Bariatric Bed
1,441 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Bone Growth, Non-Invasive
1,433 reports
What this shows Slide Stainer, Automated carries 1,446 MAUDE reports, ranked #580 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports fell to 56 in 2025, down from an average of 112 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Slide Stainer, Automated
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Slide Stainer, Automated: 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 (1,446 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Slide Stainer, Automated 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 Slide Stainer, Automated; 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.