2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Syringe, Balloon Inflation

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 Syringe, Balloon Inflation LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#361 of 1000 · 3,659 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 3,659 reports
  • RANK #361 of 1000
  • DEATH 8 death-typed
  • INJ 92 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,549 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 437
  • PHOTO Artificial Heart

Nearest event-volume peer: Artificial Heart (3 report gap)

Syringe, Balloon Inflation sits #361 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,659 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 2.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.9 pp)
  • MALF 97.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - CORK accounts for 25% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Syringe, Balloon Inflation in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Syringe, Balloon Inflation carries 3,659 MAUDE reports, ranked #361 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 3,549 (97.0%)
Injury 92 (2.5%)
Death 8 (0.2%)
6 (0.2%)
Other 4 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,510 (95.4%)
Other 73 (2.0%)
Required Intervention 36 (1.0%)
R 16 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 14 (0.4%)
Life Threatening 13 (0.4%)
Death 11 (0.3%)
L 5 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Leak/Splash 1,164
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 242
Loose or Intermittent Connection 213
Break 162
Device Packaging Compromised 110
Inaccurate Information 108
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 107
Incorrect Measurement 90
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 60
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 55
Physical Resistance/Sticking 55
Inflation Problem 41
Packaging Problem 34
Unsealed Device Packaging 26
Material Separation 23
Deflation Problem 22
Device Damaged Prior to Use 17
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 14
Contamination 12
Crack 12

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 3
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 16
97
1997: 27
98
1998: 44
99
1999: 6
00
2000: 7
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 33
04
2004: 25
05
2005: 31
06
2006: 61
07
2007: 37
08
2008: 50
09
2009: 99
10
2010: 88
11
2011: 94
12
2012: 251
13
2013: 245
14
2014: 92
15
2015: 121
16
2016: 124
17
2017: 246
18
2018: 300
19
2019: 199
20
2020: 101
21
2021: 186
22
2022: 437
23
2023: 220
24
2024: 421
25
2025: 66
26
2026: 12

Related Entities for Syringe, Balloon Inflation

Event Locations

2,314 (63.2%)
I 1,140 (31.2%)
HOSPITAL 170 (4.6%)
OTHER 11 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 9 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 8 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 7 (0.2%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - CORK vs ABBOTT VASCULAR →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Syringe, Balloon Inflation, 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 (3,659 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (8 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Syringe, Balloon Inflation 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 Syringe, Balloon Inflation; 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.