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Snare, Non-Electrical

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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FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §876.4730 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).

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openFDA event book Snare, Non-Electrical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#850 of 1000 · 572 reports · 2001–2026

  • BOOK 572 reports
  • RANK #850 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 60 injury-typed
  • MALF 510 malfunction
  • SPAN 2001–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 221
  • PHOTO Endoscopic Injection…

Nearest event-volume peer: Endoscopic Injection Needle, Gastroenterology-Urology (2 report gap)

Snare, Non-Electrical sits #850 of 1000 among tracked device types with 572 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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, Non-Electrical carries 89.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 10.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.8 pp)
  • MALF 89.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Cut is 44% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 99% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 73% of location-tagged rows .

Snare, Non-Electrical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Snare, Non-Electrical carries 572 MAUDE reports, ranked #850 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 510 (89.2%)
Injury 60 (10.5%)
2 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

508 (89.0%)
Required Intervention 34 (6.0%)
Other 27 (4.7%)
O 1 (0.2%)
R 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Cut 311
Break 78
Detachment of Device or Device Component 59
Difficult to Open or Close 50
Mechanical Problem 50
Retraction Problem 39
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 27
Material Twisted/Bent 21
Entrapment of Device 9
Fluid/Blood Leak 8
Insufficient Device Problem Information 7
Nonstandard Device 7
Defective Device 6
Difficult to Remove 5
Material Deformation 5
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 4
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 4
Activation Failure 3
Activation Problem 3
Failure to Deliver Energy 3

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 1
03
2003: 1
15
2015: 4
16
2016: 4
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 15
19
2019: 26
20
2020: 40
21
2021: 19
22
2022: 60
23
2023: 48
24
2024: 60
25
2025: 221
26
2026: 69

Reports rose to 221 in 2025, up from an average of 54 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Snare, Non-Electrical

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 487
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 2
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP. 1

Event Locations

418 (73.1%)
I 98 (17.1%)
HOSPITAL 34 (5.9%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (1.2%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (1.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.9%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.3%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Snare, Non-Electrical carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (572 here).

Endoscopic Injection Needle 570 Lead, Atomic Absorption 575 Pessary, Vaginal 575 Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic 576

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Snare, Non-Electrical 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, Non-Electrical; 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.