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Table, Operating-Room, Electrical

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, Operating-Room, Electrical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#549 of 1000 · 1,602 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,602 reports
  • RANK #549 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 108 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,354 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 259
  • PHOTO Airway

Nearest event-volume peer: Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology (14 report gap)

Table, Operating-Room, Electrical sits #549 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,602 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 →

Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm

Table, Operating-Room, Electrical carries 6.7% INJURY-coded reports, 23.6pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 6.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.6 pp)
  • MALF 84.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+19.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unintended Movement is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 89% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Table, Operating-Room, Electrical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Table, Operating-Room, Electrical carries 1,602 MAUDE reports, ranked #549 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,354 (84.5%)
118 (7.4%)
Injury 108 (6.7%)
Other 21 (1.3%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,407 (87.7%)
Other 115 (7.2%)
Required Intervention 54 (3.4%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.5%)
R 7 (0.4%)
Disability 3 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.2%)
L 2 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Unintended Movement 395
Unstable 132
Physical Resistance/Sticking 81
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 67
Unintended System Motion 65
Positioning Problem 61
Positioning Failure 56
Mechanical Problem 54
Smoking 52
Leak/Splash 45
Key or Button Unresponsive/not Working 42
Break 37
Overheating of Device 35
Battery Problem 32
Noise, Audible 32
Device Slipped 31
Self-Activation or Keying 30
Fluid/Blood Leak 27
Mechanical Jam 26
Detachment Of Device Component 25

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 2
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 3
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 15
05
2005: 1
06
2006: 2
08
2008: 8
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 34
11
2011: 33
12
2012: 32
13
2013: 39
14
2014: 105
15
2015: 102
16
2016: 140
17
2017: 80
18
2018: 52
19
2019: 64
20
2020: 253
21
2021: 259
22
2022: 57
23
2023: 62
24
2024: 91
25
2025: 101
26
2026: 52

Reports in 2025 (101) held close to the prior two-year average of 77.

Related Entities for Table, Operating-Room, Electrical

Top Manufacturers

SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 674
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 85

Event Locations

I 809 (50.5%)
618 (38.6%)
HOSPITAL 138 (8.6%)
NO INFORMATION 29 (1.8%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.1%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. vs BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Table, Operating-Room, Electrical: 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 (1,602 here).

Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology 1,588 Electrode, Electrocardiograph 1,587 Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay 1,578 Cement, Dental 1,630

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Table, Operating-Room, Electrical 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, Operating-Room, Electrical; 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.