2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

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.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §884.4900 (Obstetrics/Gynecology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#334 of 1000 · 4,666 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 4,666 reports
  • RANK #334 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 32 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,592 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2009: 948
  • PHOTO Snare, Flexible

Nearest event-volume peer: Snare, Flexible (26 report gap)

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories) sits #334 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,666 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered carries 98.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 0.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.6 pp)
  • MALF 98.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+33.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device Slipped is 27% 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 4,666 MAUDE reports, ranked #334 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,592 (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.

4,609 (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

Device Slipped 1,341
Unintended System Motion 830
Sticking 538
Break 345
Unintended Head Motion 311
Locking mechanism failure 308
Loose 235
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 212
Device Inoperable 155
Mechanical Problem 115
Detachment Of Device Component 89
Grounding Malfunction 86
Component Missing 79
Drift 58
Component Falling 53
Device Alarm System 53
Bent 47
Crack 47
Self-Activation or Keying 43
Scratched Material 41

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: 7

Reports in 2025 (17) held close to the prior two-year average of 19.

Related Entities for Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered (And Accessories)

Event Locations

4,460 (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 a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Table, Obstetrical, Ac-Powered: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (4,666 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

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.