Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide
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 §878.5020 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#285 of 1000 · 6,091 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 6,091 reports
- RANK #285 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 898 injury-typed
- MALF 5,170 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2025: 829
- PHOTO Dislodger
Nearest event-volume peer: Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal (12 report gap)
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide sits #285 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,091 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide carries 84.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 14.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-15.5 pp)
- MALF 84.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 75% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Cannula And Tubing, Vascular, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
6,232 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
6,148 reports
- Suture (this)
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide
6,091 reports
- Dislodger
Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal
6,079 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling
5,966 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter
5,946 reports
What this shows Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide carries 6,091 MAUDE reports, ranked #285 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 (829) held close to the prior two-year average of 638.
Related Entities for Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide: 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 (6,091 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 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide 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, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide; 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.