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Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories)

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 Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#327 of 1000 · 4,662 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 4,662 reports
  • RANK #327 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 32 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,588 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 948
  • PHOTO Lavage, Jet

Nearest event-volume peer: Lavage, Jet (8 report gap)

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories) sits #327 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,662 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 0.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.8 pp)
  • MALF 98.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+33.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Positioning Failure is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HILL-ROM RITTER accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 96% of location-tagged rows .

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories) carries 4,662 MAUDE reports, ranked #327 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,588 (98.4%)
Injury 32 (0.7%)
Other 24 (0.5%)
16 (0.3%)
Death 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

4,605 (98.7%)
Other 36 (0.8%)
Required Intervention 11 (0.2%)
Death 3 (0.1%)
Disability 3 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.1%)
O 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Positioning Failure 29
Mechanical Problem 28
Sharp Edges 20
Device Fell 17
Unintended System Motion 14
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 12
Break 7
Positioning Problem 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 3
Device Slipped 3
Loose or Intermittent Connection 3
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2
Component Missing 2
Naturally Worn 2
Collapse 1
Defective Component 1
Detachment Of Device Component 1
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 1
Device Tipped Over 1
Insufficient Information 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 3
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 2
97
1997: 6
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 8
06
2006: 10
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 531
09
2009: 948
10
2010: 767
11
2011: 700
12
2012: 746
13
2013: 582
14
2014: 151
15
2015: 40
16
2016: 1
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 18
19
2019: 14
20
2020: 17
21
2021: 19
22
2022: 14
23
2023: 19
24
2024: 19
25
2025: 17
26
2026: 3

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Top Manufacturers

HILL-ROM RITTER 1,803
HILL-ROM, INC. 1,017
STRYKER MEDICAL 623
STRYKER MEDICAL-KALAMAZOO 570
HILL-ROM INC. 320
HILL-ROM INC 77

Event Locations

4,456 (95.6%)
HOSPITAL 120 (2.6%)
I 80 (1.7%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)
OTHER 2 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.0%)

Compare HILL-ROM RITTER vs HILL-ROM, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered, 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 (4,662 here).

Lavage, Jet 4,670 Apparatus 4,648 Catheter, Flow Directed 4,682 Ventilator, Emergency, Powered 4,700

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 Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered 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 Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered; 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.