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Snare, Flexible

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 Snare, Flexible LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#335 of 1000 · 4,640 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 4,640 reports
  • RANK #335 of 1000
  • DEATH 10 death-typed
  • INJ 593 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,006 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 487
  • PHOTO Broach

Nearest event-volume peer: Broach (18 report gap)

Snare, Flexible sits #335 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,640 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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

Snare, Flexible carries 86.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 21.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 12.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-17.5 pp)
  • MALF 86.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+21.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Cut is 23% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 54% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .

Snare, Flexible in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Snare, Flexible carries 4,640 MAUDE reports, ranked #335 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,006 (86.3%)
Injury 593 (12.8%)
Other 16 (0.3%)
15 (0.3%)
Death 10 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,910 (82.3%)
Required Intervention 430 (9.1%)
Other 174 (3.7%)
R 93 (2.0%)
Hospitalization 93 (2.0%)
H 17 (0.4%)
O 16 (0.3%)
Death 9 (0.2%)
L 3 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Cut 1,136
Break 708
Detachment Of Device Component 637
Failure to Deliver Energy 504
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 284
Entrapment of Device 216
Retraction Problem 183
Unsealed Device Packaging 168
Detachment of Device or Device Component 160
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 114
Difficult to Open or Close 108
Replace 105
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 96
Positioning Problem 88
Difficult to Remove 75
Material Twisted/Bent 73
Wire(s), breakage of 73
Mechanical Problem 71
Component(s), broken 70
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 67

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 4
95
1995: 6
96
1996: 20
97
1997: 15
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 25
00
2000: 24
01
2001: 34
02
2002: 25
03
2003: 30
04
2004: 21
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 36
07
2007: 48
08
2008: 201
09
2009: 266
10
2010: 174
11
2011: 177
12
2012: 162
13
2013: 191
14
2014: 345
15
2015: 195
16
2016: 223
17
2017: 154
18
2018: 181
19
2019: 135
20
2020: 487
21
2021: 211
22
2022: 246
23
2023: 209
24
2024: 279
25
2025: 277
26
2026: 214

Reports in 2025 (277) held close to the prior two-year average of 244.

Related Entities for Snare, Flexible

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 2,067
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) 1,214
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER 117
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 106
WILSON-COOK MEDICAL INC 85
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. 82
AOMORI OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 63
COOK ENDOSCOPY 63

Event Locations

2,971 (64.0%)
I 1,358 (29.3%)
HOSPITAL 232 (5.0%)
NO INFORMATION 31 (0.7%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 19 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 8 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 8 (0.2%)
OTHER 5 (0.1%)
DIALYSIS UNIT 3 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Snare, Flexible: 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 (4,640 here).

Broach 4,622 Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered 4,666 Apparatus 4,706 System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging 4,713

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter 10 Adaptor, Hygiene 10 Blood Pump For Ecmo, Long-Term Use 10 Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical 10

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Snare, Flexible 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 Snare, Flexible; 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.