Stapler, Surgical
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 Stapler, Surgical MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#114 of 1000 · 25,936 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 25,936 reports
- RANK #114 of 1000
- DEATH 271 death-typed
- INJ 6,650 injury-typed
- MALF 18,753 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 1997: 3,606
- PHOTO Device
Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Neurovascular Embolization (45 report gap)
Stapler, Surgical sits #114 of 1000 among tracked device types with 25,936 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
- INJ 25.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-4.8 pp)
- MALF 72.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+7.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Failure to Fire is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. accounts for 25% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location NOT APPLICABLE is 39% of location-tagged rows .
Stapler, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Bronchoscope
Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
26,266 reports
- Device
Device, Neurovascular Embolization
25,981 reports
- Stapler (this)
Stapler, Surgical
25,936 reports
- System
System, Thermal Regulating
25,855 reports
- Wheelchair
Wheelchair, Mechanical
25,664 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing
25,649 reports
What this shows Stapler, Surgical carries 25,936 MAUDE reports, ranked #114 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 Stapler, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. vs UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORP. →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stapler, Surgical, 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 (25,936 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (271 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stapler, Surgical 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, Surgical; 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.