Staple, Removable (Skin)
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 Staple, Removable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#323 of 1000 · 4,713 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 4,713 reports
- RANK #323 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 258 injury-typed
- MALF 4,417 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2017: 657
- PHOTO Ventilator
Nearest event-volume peer: Ventilator, Emergency, Powered (Resuscitator) (13 report gap)
Staple, Removable (Skin) sits #323 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,713 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 →
Event-type mix vs corpus
Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 5.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-25.0 pp)
- MALF 93.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Mechanical Jam is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 39% of location-tagged rows .
Staple, Removable in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Tape And Band…
Tape And Bandage, Adhesive
4,749 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed
4,747 reports
- Staple (this)
Staple, Removable (Skin)
4,713 reports
- Ventilator
Ventilator, Emergency, Powered (Resuscitator)
4,700 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Flow Directed
4,682 reports
- Lavage, Jet
Lavage, Jet
4,670 reports
What this shows Staple, Removable (Skin) carries 4,713 MAUDE reports, ranked #323 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
Related Entities for Staple, Removable (Skin)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Staple, Removable, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (4,713 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Staple, Removable 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 Staple, Removable; 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.