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System, Suction, Lipoplasty

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 System, Suction, Lipoplasty LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#981 of 1000 · 363 reports · 2000–2026

  • BOOK 363 reports
  • RANK #981 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 164 injury-typed
  • MALF 186 malfunction
  • SPAN 2000–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 50
  • PHOTO Crutch

Nearest event-volume peer: Crutch (0 report gap)

System, Suction, Lipoplasty sits #981 of 1000 among tracked device types with 363 MAUDE reports spanning 2000–2026. 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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 45.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+14.7 pp)
  • MALF 51.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-13.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MENTOR TEXAS accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 44% of location-tagged rows .

System, Suction, Lipoplasty in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows System, Suction, Lipoplasty carries 363 MAUDE reports, ranked #981 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 186 (51.2%)
Injury 164 (45.2%)
Other 6 (1.7%)
5 (1.4%)
Death 2 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

182 (48.8%)
Other 99 (26.5%)
Required Intervention 65 (17.4%)
Hospitalization 10 (2.7%)
R 5 (1.3%)
Disability 5 (1.3%)
S 3 (0.8%)
Death 2 (0.5%)
L 1 (0.3%)
O 1 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 69
Break 40
Leak/Splash 22
Insufficient Information 16
Failure to Power Up 13
Fluid/Blood Leak 10
Mechanical Problem 8
Device Emits Odor 7
Suction Failure 6
Crack 5
Fracture 5
Activation Failure 4
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 4
Energy Output Problem 4
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 4
Output Problem 4
Patient-Device Incompatibility 4
Contamination 3
Detachment of Device or Device Component 3
Material Twisted/Bent 3

Yearly Trend

00
2000: 1
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 2
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 4
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 4
11
2011: 5
12
2012: 4
13
2013: 21
14
2014: 13
15
2015: 44
16
2016: 20
17
2017: 28
18
2018: 30
19
2019: 35
20
2020: 36
21
2021: 28
22
2022: 50
23
2023: 15
24
2024: 5
25
2025: 10
26
2026: 1

Related Entities for System, Suction, Lipoplasty

Top Manufacturers

MENTOR TEXAS 97
BAUSCH + LOMB 11

Event Locations

I 161 (44.4%)
158 (43.5%)
HOSPITAL 19 (5.2%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (3.9%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (1.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.8%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.6%)
HOME 1 (0.3%)

Compare MENTOR TEXAS vs BAUSCH + LOMB →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Suction, Lipoplasty, 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 (363 here).

Crutch 363 Lens, Contact, 363 Photometric Method, Magnesium 363 Stimulator 362

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Analyzer, Chemistry Clinical Use 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for System, Suction, Lipoplasty 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, Suction, Lipoplasty; 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.