2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Stretcher, Wheeled

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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.6910 (General Hospital panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Stretcher, Wheeled MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#97 of 1000 · 35,224 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 35,224 reports
  • RANK #97 of 1000
  • DEATH 108 death-typed
  • INJ 1,179 injury-typed
  • MALF 33,012 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2012: 6,334
  • PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Angioplasty, Peripheral, Transluminal (500 report gap)

Stretcher, Wheeled sits #97 of 1000 among tracked device types with 35,224 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Stretcher, Wheeled carries 93.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 3.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.9 pp)
  • MALF 93.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+28.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device Slipped is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 87% of location-tagged rows .

Stretcher, Wheeled in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Stretcher, Wheeled carries 35,224 MAUDE reports, ranked #97 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 33,012 (93.7%)
Injury 1,179 (3.3%)
598 (1.7%)
Other 327 (0.9%)
Death 108 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

33,963 (96.4%)
Other 878 (2.5%)
Required Intervention 221 (0.6%)
Death 75 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 50 (0.1%)
R 18 (0.1%)
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%)

Top Product Problems

Device Slipped 11,966
Break 4,151
Sticking 3,130
Mechanical Problem 1,953
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1,818
Mechanical Jam 1,308
Unintended System Motion 1,222
Unintended Movement 1,161
Component Missing 1,160
Scratched Material 846
Fluid/Blood Leak 801
Naturally Worn 695
Device Inoperable 686
Unintended Head Motion 623
Device Fell 592
Bent 553
Collapse 539
Crack 515
Positioning Failure 473
Difficult or Delayed Positioning 464

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
93
1993: 3
94
1994: 12
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 37
97
1997: 161
98
1998: 71
99
1999: 59
00
2000: 61
01
2001: 126
02
2002: 162
03
2003: 108
04
2004: 37
05
2005: 52
06
2006: 105
07
2007: 117
08
2008: 385
09
2009: 2,337
10
2010: 4,049
11
2011: 5,891
12
2012: 6,334
13
2013: 5,743
14
2014: 1,633
15
2015: 381
16
2016: 205
17
2017: 230
18
2018: 573
19
2019: 663
20
2020: 694
21
2021: 874
22
2022: 694
23
2023: 1,028
24
2024: 956
25
2025: 916
26
2026: 518

Reports in 2025 (916) held close to the prior two-year average of 992.

Related Entities for Stretcher, Wheeled

Event Locations

30,593 (86.9%)
I 3,259 (9.3%)
HOSPITAL 854 (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 a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stretcher, Wheeled: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (35,224 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (108 here), distinct from the volume row.

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.