Stapler, 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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4740 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Stapler, Skin LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#364 of 1000 · 3,772 reports · 2022–2026
- BOOK 3,772 reports
- RANK #364 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 22 injury-typed
- MALF 3,749 malfunction
- SPAN 2022–2026
- PEAK 2023: 1,293
- PHOTO System
Nearest event-volume peer: System, Test, Automated, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, Short Incubation (38 report gap)
Stapler, Skin sits #364 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,772 MAUDE reports spanning 2022–2026. 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
Stapler, Skin carries 99.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.6pp 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 0.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.7 pp)
- MALF 99.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Mechanical Jam is 61% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 99% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 100% of location-tagged rows .
Stapler, Skin in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Analyzer
Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function
3,843 reports
- Covid-19 Mult…
Covid-19 Multi-Analyte Antigen Device
3,840 reports
- Visual
Visual, Pregnancy Hcg, Prescription Use
3,833 reports
- System
System, Test, Automated, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, Short Incubation
3,810 reports
- Stapler, Skin (this)
Stapler, Skin
3,772 reports
- Bone Cement
Bone Cement, Antibiotic
3,697 reports
What this shows Stapler, Skin carries 3,772 MAUDE reports, ranked #364 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 518 in 2025, down from an average of 1,284 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Stapler, Skin
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Stapler, Skin 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 (3,772 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stapler, Skin 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 Stapler, Skin; 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.