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Suture, Absorbable, Natural

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Suture, Absorbable, Natural LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#440 of 1000 · 2,436 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,436 reports
  • RANK #440 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 561 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,843 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 246
  • PHOTO Staple, Fixation, Bone

Nearest event-volume peer: Staple, Fixation, Bone (13 report gap)

Suture, Absorbable, Natural sits #440 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,436 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 23.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-7.4 pp)
  • MALF 75.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+11.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 49% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 65% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 39% of location-tagged rows .

Suture, Absorbable, Natural in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Suture, Absorbable, Natural carries 2,436 MAUDE reports, ranked #440 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,843 (75.7%)
Injury 561 (23.0%)
Other 16 (0.7%)
11 (0.5%)
Death 5 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,574 (63.4%)
Required Intervention 443 (17.9%)
Other 385 (15.5%)
R 32 (1.3%)
Hospitalization 28 (1.1%)
O 6 (0.2%)
S 5 (0.2%)
Death 4 (0.2%)
H 1 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 758
Material Separation 215
Detachment of Device or Device Component 82
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 73
Material Frayed 68
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 67
Fluid/Blood Leak 52
Detachment Of Device Component 34
Patient-Device Incompatibility 34
Leak/Splash 29
Material Integrity Problem 27
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 17
Defective Component 16
Material Twisted/Bent 15
Difficult to Open or Close 14
Failure To Adhere Or Bond 14
Component Misassembled 13
Material Too Rigid or Stiff 11
Packaging Problem 10
Product Quality Problem 10

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 7
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 32
97
1997: 149
98
1998: 80
99
1999: 49
00
2000: 40
01
2001: 8
02
2002: 38
03
2003: 12
04
2004: 6
05
2005: 20
06
2006: 17
07
2007: 13
08
2008: 6
09
2009: 25
10
2010: 57
11
2011: 36
12
2012: 27
13
2013: 32
14
2014: 157
15
2015: 137
16
2016: 87
17
2017: 133
18
2018: 246
19
2019: 229
20
2020: 109
21
2021: 120
22
2022: 130
23
2023: 121
24
2024: 161
25
2025: 120
26
2026: 22

Related Entities for Suture, Absorbable, Natural

Top Manufacturers

ETHICON INC. 1,140
DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD 247
ETHICON, INC. 213
UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORP. 100
UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION 22
COVIDIEN 20

Event Locations

955 (39.2%)
I 918 (37.7%)
HOSPITAL 345 (14.2%)
OTHER 79 (3.2%)
UNKNOWN 42 (1.7%)
INVALID DATA 35 (1.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 24 (1.0%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (0.7%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 10 (0.4%)
HOME 8 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
OPERATING ROOM 2 (0.1%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Suture, Absorbable, Natural, 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 (2,436 here).

Staple, Fixation, Bone 2,423 Mattress 2,417 Prosthesis 2,458 System, Imaging, Pulsed Doppler, Ultrasonic 2,413

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Suture, Absorbable, Natural 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 Suture, Absorbable, Natural; 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.