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Tube, Feeding

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 Tube, Feeding LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#606 of 1000 · 1,203 reports · 1991–2026

  • BOOK 1,203 reports
  • RANK #606 of 1000
  • DEATH 79 death-typed
  • INJ 384 injury-typed
  • MALF 602 malfunction
  • SPAN 1991–2026
  • PEAK 2016: 102
  • PHOTO Accessories

Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Blood Circuit, Hemodialysis (0 report gap)

Tube, Feeding sits #606 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,203 MAUDE reports spanning 1991–2026. 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 6.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+5.0 pp)
  • INJ 31.9% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+1.5 pp)
  • MALF 50.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-14.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 40% of location-tagged rows .

Tube, Feeding in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tube, Feeding carries 1,203 MAUDE reports, ranked #606 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 602 (50.0%)
Injury 384 (31.9%)
Other 88 (7.3%)
Death 79 (6.6%)
50 (4.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

554 (42.8%)
Other 257 (19.9%)
Required Intervention 218 (16.9%)
Death 75 (5.8%)
R 50 (3.9%)
Hospitalization 48 (3.7%)
Life Threatening 44 (3.4%)
L 19 (1.5%)
O 14 (1.1%)
D 4 (0.3%)
Invalid Data 4 (0.3%)
Disability 3 (0.2%)
H 2 (0.2%)
S 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 57
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 34
Malposition of Device 33
Material Deformation 18
Fluid/Blood Leak 17
Kinked 17
Leak/Splash 17
Material Too Rigid or Stiff 16
Disconnection 15
Insufficient Information 14
Obstruction of Flow 13
Material Puncture/Hole 11
Migration or Expulsion of Device 11
Difficult to Remove 10
Material Integrity Problem 10
Detachment Of Device Component 9
Crack 8
Detachment of Device or Device Component 8
Material Twisted/Bent 7
Nonstandard Device 7

Yearly Trend

91
1991: 1
92
1992: 14
93
1993: 28
94
1994: 63
95
1995: 29
96
1996: 38
97
1997: 80
98
1998: 36
99
1999: 40
00
2000: 36
01
2001: 21
02
2002: 34
03
2003: 20
04
2004: 27
05
2005: 21
06
2006: 31
07
2007: 19
08
2008: 24
09
2009: 40
10
2010: 21
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 32
13
2013: 38
14
2014: 64
15
2015: 55
16
2016: 102
17
2017: 34
18
2018: 30
19
2019: 19
20
2020: 31
21
2021: 24
22
2022: 19
23
2023: 55
24
2024: 41
25
2025: 10
26
2026: 11

Related Entities for Tube, Feeding

Top Manufacturers

COVIDIEN 183
AVANOS MEDICAL INC. 115

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 476 (39.6%)
421 (35.0%)
I 203 (16.9%)
INVALID DATA 34 (2.8%)
NO INFORMATION 29 (2.4%)
UNKNOWN 15 (1.2%)
NURSING HOME 12 (1.0%)
HOME 7 (0.6%)
OTHER 5 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare COVIDIEN vs AVANOS MEDICAL INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Feeding, 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 (1,203 here).

Accessories, Blood Circuit, Hemodialysis 1,203 System/Device, Pharmacy Compounding 1,201 Lamp, Surgical 1,207 Tube, Gastro-Enterostomy 1,198

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (79 here), distinct from the volume row.

Stimulator 80 Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable 80 Instrument, Ultrasonic Surgical 81 Tubing, Pump, Cardiopulmonary Bypass 81

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube, Feeding 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 Tube, Feeding; 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.