What are FDA adverse event reports for System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories, there are 1,745 total reports including 44 death reports and 700 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

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System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories

Name: System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#513 of 1000 · 1,745 reports · 2002–2026

BOOK 1,745 reports
RANK #513 of 1000
DEATH 44 death-typed
INJ 700 injury-typed
MALF 993 malfunction
SPAN 2002–2026
PEAK 2017: 225
PHOTO Stimulator

Nearest event-volume peer: Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms (1 report gap)

System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories sits #513 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,745 MAUDE reports spanning 2002–2026. 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 2.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.0 pp)
INJ 40.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+9.7 pp)
MALF 56.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-7.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ANGIODYNAMICS accounts for 67% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Tubes

1,759
System (this)

1,745
Stimulator

1,744
Cannula

1,730
Cannula

1,723
Catheter

1,723

What this shows System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories carries 1,745 MAUDE reports, ranked #513 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 993 (56.9%)

Injury 700 (40.1%)

Death 44 (2.5%)

Other 5 (0.3%)

3 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,004 (54.3%)

Required Intervention 364 (19.7%)

Other 280 (15.2%)

R 55 (3.0%)

Hospitalization 43 (2.3%)

Death 38 (2.1%)

O 25 (1.4%)

H 13 (0.7%)

Life Threatening 9 (0.5%)

D 7 (0.4%)

L 4 (0.2%)

S 3 (0.2%)

Disability 2 (0.1%)

Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)

Yearly Trend

2002: 2

2003: 4

2004: 2

2005: 3

2006: 3

2007: 18

2008: 15

2009: 7

2010: 28

2011: 26

2012: 9

2013: 16

2014: 27

2015: 92

2016: 176

2017: 225

2018: 102

2019: 123

2020: 128

2021: 217

2022: 142

2023: 106

2024: 141

2025: 113

2026: 20

Top Manufacturers

ANGIODYNAMICS 410

COVIDIEN LP 144

COVIDIEN MFG DC BOULDER 60

Event Locations

I 897 (51.4%)

731 (41.9%)

HOSPITAL 71 (4.1%)

NO INFORMATION 44 (2.5%)

OTHER 2 (0.1%)

Compare ANGIODYNAMICS vs COVIDIEN LP →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories, 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 (1,745 here).

Stimulator 1,744 Tubes, Vacuum Sample, With Anticoagulant 1,759 Cannula, Nasal, Oxygen 1,730 Cannula, Manipulator/Injector, Uterine 1,723

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (44 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Peritoneal, Long-Term Indwelling 44 Filler, Bone Void, Calcium Compound 44 Monitor, Physiological, Patient 44 System, Hypothermia, Intravenous, Cooling 44

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories 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 System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories; 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.

System, Ablation, Microwave And Accessories

Event-type mix vs corpus