Surgical Device, For Cutting, Coagulation, And/Or Ablation Of Tissue, Including Cardiac Tissue
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 Surgical Device LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#745 of 1000 · 750 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 750 reports
- RANK #745 of 1000
- DEATH 86 death-typed
- INJ 450 injury-typed
- MALF 208 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2023: 99
- PHOTO Catheter
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Balloon, Transcervical (3 report gap)
Surgical Device, For Cutting, Coagulation, And/Or Ablation Of Tissue, Including Cardiac Tissue sits #745 of 1000 among tracked device types with 750 MAUDE reports spanning 2006–2026. 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 11.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+9.9 pp)
- INJ 60.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+29.6 pp)
- MALF 27.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-36.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 69% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PERFUSION SYSTEMS accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .
Surgical Device in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Enzyme Linked…
Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay, Rubella
756 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Non-Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Retropubic Or Transobturator
756 reports
- Susceptibilit…
Susceptibility Test Powders, Antimycobacterial
756 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Balloon, Transcervical
753 reports
- Surgical Devi… (this)
Surgical Device, For Cutting, Coagulation, And/Or Ablation Of Tissue, Including Cardiac Tissue
750 reports
- Punch
Punch, Surgical
747 reports
What this shows Surgical Device, For Cutting, Coagulation, And/Or Ablation Of Tissue, Including Cardiac Tissue carries 750 MAUDE reports, ranked #745 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
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Surgical Device, 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 (750 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (86 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Surgical Device 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 Surgical Device; 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.