Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered
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 §890.3690 (Physical Medicine panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#349 of 1000 · 4,226 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 4,226 reports
- RANK #349 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 129 injury-typed
- MALF 4,028 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2011: 1,529
- PHOTO Catheter, Straight
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Straight (3 report gap)
Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered sits #349 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,226 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, Powered carries 95.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 3.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.2 pp)
- MALF 95.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER MEDICAL accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 91% of location-tagged rows .
Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pump
Pump, Blood, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Non-Roller Type
4,355 reports
- Battery
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable
4,301 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Straight
4,229 reports
- Stretcher (this)
Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered
4,226 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Uncemented
4,170 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Manual, Surgical, General Use
4,143 reports
What this shows Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered carries 4,226 MAUDE reports, ranked #349 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 104 in 2025, down from an average of 163 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered: 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 (4,226 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered 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, Powered; 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.