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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#292 of 1000 · 5,613 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 5,613 reports
- RANK #292 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 839 injury-typed
- MALF 4,751 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2025: 831
- PHOTO Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Hip, Constrained, Cemented Or Uncemented, Metal/Polymer (4 report gap)
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide sits #292 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,613 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 →
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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 14.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.5 pp)
- MALF 84.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+20.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 80% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% 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
- Blade
Blade, Saw, General & Plastic Surgery, Surgical
5,683 reports
- Extended Dept…
Extended Depth Of Focus Intraocular Lens
5,658 reports
- Suture (this)
Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide
5,613 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Constrained, Cemented Or Uncemented, Metal/Polymer
5,609 reports
- Stent
Stent, Ureteral
5,594 reports
- Warmer
Warmer, Infant Radiant
5,554 reports
What this shows Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide carries 5,613 MAUDE reports, ranked #292 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 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyamide, 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 (5,613 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.