What are FDA adverse event reports for Stretcher, Wheeled?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Stretcher, Wheeled, there are 34,851 total reports including 102 death reports and 1,171 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Stretcher, Wheeled?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Stretcher, Wheeled

Name: Stretcher, Wheeled - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
Creator: PlainHospital
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Stretcher, Wheeled MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#95 of 1000 · 34,851 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 34,851 reports
RANK #95 of 1000
DEATH 102 death-typed
INJ 1,171 injury-typed
MALF 32,653 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2012: 6,334
PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal (33 report gap)

Stretcher, Wheeled sits #95 of 1000 among tracked device types with 34,851 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
INJ 3.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.1 pp)
MALF 93.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Mechanical Jam is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 87% of location-tagged rows .

Rod

36,507
Replacement H…

36,406
Catheter

35,537
Stretcher (this)

34,851
Catheter

34,818
Detector And…

33,206

What this shows Stretcher, Wheeled carries 34,851 MAUDE reports, ranked #95 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 32,653 (93.7%)

Injury 1,171 (3.4%)

598 (1.7%)

Other 327 (0.9%)

Death 102 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

33,632 (96.4%)

Other 847 (2.4%)

Required Intervention 221 (0.6%)

Death 72 (0.2%)

Hospitalization 50 (0.1%)

R 17 (0.0%)

Disability 10 (0.0%)

O 9 (0.0%)

Life Threatening 7 (0.0%)

H 4 (0.0%)

Invalid Data 4 (0.0%)

L 3 (0.0%)

D 2 (0.0%)

S 2 (0.0%)

Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 4

1993: 3

1994: 12

1995: 5

1996: 37

1997: 161

1998: 71

1999: 59

2000: 61

2001: 126

2002: 162

2003: 108

2004: 37

2005: 52

2006: 105

2007: 117

2008: 385

2009: 2,337

2010: 4,049

2011: 5,891

2012: 6,334

2013: 5,743

2014: 1,633

2015: 381

2016: 205

2017: 230

2018: 573

2019: 663

2020: 694

2021: 874

2022: 694

2023: 1,028

2024: 956

2025: 916

2026: 145

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 10,642

STRYKER MEDICAL 9,159

HILL-ROM, INC. 3,295

HILL-ROM RITTER 2,140

HILL-ROM INC. 932

Event Locations

30,221 (86.7%)

I 3,259 (9.4%)

HOSPITAL 853 (2.4%)

NOT APPLICABLE 356 (1.0%)

INVALID DATA 74 (0.2%)

OTHER 39 (0.1%)

NO INFORMATION 23 (0.1%)

NURSING HOME 12 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.0%)

UNKNOWN 4 (0.0%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.0%)

HOME 1 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

PUBLIC VENUE 1 (0.0%)

Compare STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO vs STRYKER MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stretcher, Wheeled, 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 (34,851 here).

Catheter 34,818 Catheter 35,537 Replacement Heart-Valve 36,406 Detector And Alarm, Arrhythmia 33,206

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (102 here), distinct from the volume row.

Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument 101 Mesh 100 Powered Laser Surgical Instrument 104 Stent, Colonic, Metallic, Expandable 104

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stretcher, Wheeled 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 Stretcher, Wheeled; 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.

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Event-type mix vs corpus