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Syringe, Piston

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, Piston MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#67 of 1000 · 51,034 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 51,034 reports
  • RANK #67 of 1000
  • DEATH 66 death-typed
  • INJ 5,073 injury-typed
  • MALF 45,133 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 5,874
  • PHOTO Drug Eluting Permanen…

Nearest event-volume peer: Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode (208 report gap)

Syringe, Piston sits #67 of 1000 among tracked device types with 51,034 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 9.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-20.5 pp)
  • MALF 88.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 23% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BD MEDICAL - DIABETES CARE accounts for 21% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Syringe, Piston in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Syringe, Piston carries 51,034 MAUDE reports, ranked #67 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 45,133 (88.4%)
Injury 5,073 (9.9%)
Other 429 (0.8%)
332 (0.7%)
Death 66 (0.1%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

31,583 (61.2%)
Other 16,172 (31.3%)
Hospitalization 1,867 (3.6%)
Required Intervention 1,033 (2.0%)
R 229 (0.4%)
O 227 (0.4%)
Life Threatening 151 (0.3%)
H 101 (0.2%)
Death 71 (0.1%)
Disability 67 (0.1%)
L 61 (0.1%)
S 22 (0.0%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Leak/Splash 8,846
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 6,208
Break 4,251
Patient Device Interaction Problem 2,697
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 2,062
Volume Accuracy Problem 1,853
Failure to Deliver 1,704
Computer Software Problem 1,431
Fluid/Blood Leak 1,153
Contamination 1,110
Defective Component 1,091
Crack 1,043
Material Too Rigid or Stiff 916
Packaging Problem 871
Physical Resistance/Sticking 860
Defective Device 847
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 743
Detachment of Device or Device Component 591
Connection Problem 495
Material Deformation 495

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 14
94
1994: 115
95
1995: 73
96
1996: 100
97
1997: 130
98
1998: 136
99
1999: 116
00
2000: 85
01
2001: 140
02
2002: 218
03
2003: 270
04
2004: 321
05
2005: 428
06
2006: 532
07
2007: 674
08
2008: 691
09
2009: 913
10
2010: 679
11
2011: 185
12
2012: 307
13
2013: 326
14
2014: 244
15
2015: 273
16
2016: 684
17
2017: 1,858
18
2018: 3,952
19
2019: 5,863
20
2020: 5,334
21
2021: 5,874
22
2022: 5,233
23
2023: 5,214
24
2024: 5,122
25
2025: 4,246
26
2026: 682

Related Entities for Syringe, Piston

Top Manufacturers

BD MEDICAL - DIABETES CARE 7,278
COMPANION MEDICAL INC 7,222
BECTON DICKINSON MEDICAL SYSTEMS 5,904
BECTON DICKINSON 4,857
BECTON DICKINSON, S.A. 4,257
BD MEDICAL (BD WEST) MEDICAL SURGICAL 2,342
MEDTRONIC MINIMED 1,902
COVIDIEN 1,064

Event Locations

26,444 (51.8%)
I 21,514 (42.2%)
HOSPITAL 1,234 (2.4%)
NO INFORMATION 615 (1.2%)
HOME 488 (1.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 224 (0.4%)
OTHER 185 (0.4%)
UNKNOWN 169 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 61 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 50 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 13 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 12 (0.0%)
PUBLIC VENUE 6 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 3 (0.0%)
DIALYSIS CENTER 3 (0.0%)
SCHOOL 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 2 (0.0%)
CHEMOTHERAPY CENTER 1 (0.0%)

Compare BD MEDICAL - DIABETES CARE vs COMPANION MEDICAL INC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Syringe, Piston, 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 (51,034 here).

Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular Pac… 50,826 Stimulator 51,263 Stimulator 51,502 Generator, Oxygen, Portable 52,481

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (66 here), distinct from the volume row.

Electrode, Pacemaker, Temporary 65 Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen 65 Implant, Cochlear 68 Laryngoscope, Rigid 68

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Syringe, Piston 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, Piston; 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.