Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone
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, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#168 of 1000 · 14,884 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 14,884 reports
- RANK #168 of 1000
- DEATH 41 death-typed
- INJ 3,188 injury-typed
- MALF 11,374 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2025: 2,547
- PHOTO Pump
Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Infusion, Enteral (93 report gap)
Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone sits #168 of 1000 among tracked device types with 14,884 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 21.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-9.0 pp)
- MALF 76.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+11.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .
Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pacemaker/Icd…
Pacemaker/Icd/Crt Non-Implanted Components
15,411 reports
- Suture (this)
Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone
14,884 reports
- Pump
Pump, Infusion, Enteral
14,791 reports
- Dressing
Dressing, Wound, Occlusive
14,583 reports
- Laparoscope
Laparoscope, Gynecologic (And Accessories)
14,581 reports
- Tube Tracheos…
Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff
14,497 reports
What this shows Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone carries 14,884 MAUDE reports, ranked #168 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
Related Entities for Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone, 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 (14,884 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (41 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Suture, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone 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, Surgical, Absorbable, Polydioxanone; 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.