Support, Patient Position
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 §868.6820 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Support, Patient Position LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#740 of 1000 · 782 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 782 reports
- RANK #740 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 86 injury-typed
- MALF 662 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2017: 441
- PHOTO Gown, Surgical
Nearest event-volume peer: Gown, Surgical (2 report gap)
Support, Patient Position sits #740 of 1000 among tracked device types with 782 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
Support, Patient Position carries 84.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 19.8pp 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 (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 11.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.3 pp)
- MALF 84.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Air Leak is 63% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION accounts for 48% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 70% of location-tagged rows .
Support, Patient Position in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed
787 reports
- Support (this)
Support, Patient Position
782 reports
- Gown, Surgical
Gown, Surgical
780 reports
- Appliance
Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component, Metal Composite
779 reports
- Computer
Computer, Diagnostic, Pre-Programmed, Single-Function
778 reports
- Electrocautery
Electrocautery, Gynecologic (And Accessories)
777 reports
What this shows Support, Patient Position carries 782 MAUDE reports, ranked #740 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 in 2025 (22) held close to the prior two-year average of 17.
Related Entities for Support, Patient Position
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Support, Patient Position: 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 (782 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Support, Patient Position 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 Support, Patient Position; 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.