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Tape And Bandage, Adhesive

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 Tape And Bandage, Adhesive LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#321 of 1000 · 4,749 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 4,749 reports
  • RANK #321 of 1000
  • DEATH 15 death-typed
  • INJ 2,715 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,803 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 1,290
  • PHOTO Mesh

Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Apical Vaginal And Uterine Prolapse, Transabdominally Placed (2 report gap)

Tape And Bandage, Adhesive sits #321 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,749 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 57.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+26.7 pp)
  • MALF 38.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-26.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Tape And Bandage, Adhesive in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tape And Bandage, Adhesive carries 4,749 MAUDE reports, ranked #321 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 2,715 (57.2%)
Malfunction 1,803 (38.0%)
Other 183 (3.9%)
33 (0.7%)
Death 15 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,402 (47.4%)
Required Intervention 1,076 (21.2%)
Other 978 (19.3%)
R 244 (4.8%)
Hospitalization 216 (4.3%)
O 38 (0.7%)
Life Threatening 31 (0.6%)
S 17 (0.3%)
Disability 17 (0.3%)
H 16 (0.3%)
Death 16 (0.3%)
L 15 (0.3%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,546
Loss of or Failure to Bond 771
Material Integrity Problem 156
Insufficient Information 151
Patient-Device Incompatibility 129
Delivered as Unsterile Product 126
Patient Device Interaction Problem 107
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 92
Device Slipped 66
Biocompatibility 65
Detachment of Device or Device Component 52
Use of Device Problem 50
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 49
Failure To Adhere Or Bond 37
Failure to Obtain Sample 35
Product Quality Problem 35
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 32
Mechanical Problem 31
Migration 31
Difficult to Remove 30

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 5
95
1995: 9
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 19
99
1999: 9
00
2000: 14
01
2001: 14
02
2002: 12
03
2003: 15
04
2004: 13
05
2005: 15
06
2006: 24
07
2007: 37
08
2008: 26
09
2009: 37
10
2010: 31
11
2011: 39
12
2012: 59
13
2013: 88
14
2014: 98
15
2015: 200
16
2016: 158
17
2017: 206
18
2018: 213
19
2019: 488
20
2020: 1,290
21
2021: 562
22
2022: 253
23
2023: 192
24
2024: 224
25
2025: 323
26
2026: 63

Related Entities for Tape And Bandage, Adhesive

Top Manufacturers

SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. 1,999
UNK 84
UNKNOWN 64
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 63

Event Locations

I 2,442 (51.4%)
1,402 (29.5%)
OTHER 549 (11.6%)
NO INFORMATION 138 (2.9%)
HOME 85 (1.8%)
HOSPITAL 82 (1.7%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 24 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 14 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 6 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW MEDICAL LTD. vs UNK →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tape And Bandage, Adhesive, 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 (4,749 here).

Mesh 4,747 Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear 4,769 Staple, Removable 4,713 Ventilator, Emergency, Powered 4,700

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (15 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter 15 Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature 15 Infusor, Pressure, For I.V. Bags 15 Posterior Cervical Screw System 15

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tape And Bandage, Adhesive 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 Tape And Bandage, Adhesive; 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.