2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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

reports

What this shows Staple, Removable (Skin) carries 4,713 MAUDE reports, ranked #323 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,417 (93.7%)
Injury 258 (5.5%)
Other 19 (0.4%)
17 (0.4%)
Death 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,671 (77.5%)
Other 819 (17.3%)
Required Intervention 194 (4.1%)
R 24 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 17 (0.4%)
O 5 (0.1%)
Disability 4 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.0%)
Death 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Mechanical Jam 1,039
Failure to Form Staple 394
Mechanics Altered 139
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 104
Misfire 76
Entrapment of Device 75
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 69
Difficult to Open or Close 55
Delivered as Unsterile Product 46
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 42
Unsealed Device Packaging 42
Failure to Fire 39
Break 31
Loss of or Failure to Bond 29
Detachment of Device or Device Component 28
Firing Problem 27
Patient Device Interaction Problem 26
Premature Activation 24
Difficult to Remove 22
Failure to Align 22

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 6
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 9
97
1997: 19
98
1998: 103
99
1999: 88
00
2000: 294
01
2001: 209
02
2002: 28
03
2003: 27
04
2004: 48
05
2005: 13
06
2006: 34
07
2007: 138
08
2008: 86
09
2009: 190
10
2010: 357
11
2011: 294
12
2012: 217
13
2013: 187
14
2014: 86
15
2015: 84
16
2016: 297
17
2017: 657
18
2018: 197
19
2019: 212
20
2020: 232
21
2021: 251
22
2022: 98
23
2023: 72
24
2024: 51
25
2025: 109
26
2026: 19

Related Entities for Staple, Removable (Skin)

Event Locations

1,837 (39.0%)
I 1,773 (37.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 751 (15.9%)
HOSPITAL 163 (3.5%)
OTHER 129 (2.7%)
NO INFORMATION 44 (0.9%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
HOME 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. →

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.

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.