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Trocar

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 Trocar LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#495 of 1000 · 1,947 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,947 reports
  • RANK #495 of 1000
  • DEATH 56 death-typed
  • INJ 895 injury-typed
  • MALF 949 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2006: 178
  • PHOTO Temporary Non-Roller…

Nearest event-volume peer: Temporary Non-Roller Type Right Heart Support Blood Pump (1 report gap)

Trocar sits #495 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,947 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 2.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.4 pp)
  • INJ 46.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+15.5 pp)
  • MALF 48.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-15.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 67% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ST. JUDE MEDICAL accounts for 43% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Trocar in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Trocar carries 1,947 MAUDE reports, ranked #495 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 949 (48.7%)
Injury 895 (46.0%)
Death 56 (2.9%)
Other 29 (1.5%)
18 (0.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,016 (47.7%)
Required Intervention 484 (22.7%)
Other 258 (12.1%)
R 109 (5.1%)
Life Threatening 63 (3.0%)
Hospitalization 61 (2.9%)
Death 54 (2.5%)
L 48 (2.3%)
O 12 (0.6%)
H 10 (0.5%)
Invalid Data 8 (0.4%)
D 4 (0.2%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 554
Break 82
Difficult to Insert 30
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 29
Fracture 27
Material Separation 12
Gas/Air Leak 11
Insufficient Information 11
Detachment of Device or Device Component 10
Material Twisted/Bent 9
Unintended Movement 9
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 6
Physical Resistance/Sticking 6
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 5
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 5
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 5
Use of Device Problem 5
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 4
Bent 4
Difficult to Advance 4

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 10
93
1993: 24
94
1994: 24
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 3
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 91
01
2001: 44
02
2002: 89
03
2003: 62
04
2004: 50
05
2005: 71
06
2006: 178
07
2007: 106
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 17
10
2010: 33
11
2011: 68
12
2012: 58
13
2013: 37
14
2014: 64
15
2015: 52
16
2016: 62
17
2017: 70
18
2018: 85
19
2019: 95
20
2020: 108
21
2021: 78
22
2022: 61
23
2023: 109
24
2024: 105
25
2025: 70
26
2026: 11

Related Entities for Trocar

Top Manufacturers

ST. JUDE MEDICAL 403
PONCE - USS 339
MEDTRONIC MEXICO 75
ABBOTT MEDICAL 48
PONCE-USS 38
ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. 36

Event Locations

1,143 (58.7%)
I 493 (25.3%)
HOSPITAL 264 (13.6%)
INVALID DATA 18 (0.9%)
NO INFORMATION 14 (0.7%)
NOT APPLICABLE 8 (0.4%)
OTHER 3 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare ST. JUDE MEDICAL vs PONCE - USS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Trocar, 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 (1,947 here).

Temporary Non-Roller Type Right Heart Suppo… 1,948 Radioimmunoassay, Total Triiodothyronine 1,956 Electrode, Pacemaker, Temporary 1,935 Valve, Pulmonary 1,935

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (56 here), distinct from the volume row.

Bottle, Collection, Vacuum 55 Catheter, Balloon Type 55 Orthopedic Manual Surgical Instrument 55 Stent, Metallic, Expandable, Duodenal 55

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Trocar 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 Trocar; 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.