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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

#612 of 1000 · 1,266 reports · 1991–2026

  • BOOK 1,266 reports
  • RANK #612 of 1000
  • DEATH 79 death-typed
  • INJ 392 injury-typed
  • MALF 657 malfunction
  • SPAN 1991–2026
  • PEAK 2016: 102
  • PHOTO Intervertebral Fusion…

Nearest event-volume peer: Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrated Fixation, Lumbar (2 report gap)

Tube, Feeding sits #612 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,266 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Tube, Feeding carries 51.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 12.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 6.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.7 pp)
  • INJ 31.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+0.7 pp)
  • MALF 51.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-12.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 13% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 54% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 38% 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 1,266 MAUDE reports, ranked #612 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 657 (51.9%)
Injury 392 (31.0%)
Other 88 (7.0%)
Death 79 (6.2%)
50 (3.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

581 (43.7%)
Other 264 (19.8%)
Required Intervention 218 (16.4%)
Death 75 (5.6%)
Hospitalization 51 (3.8%)
R 50 (3.8%)
Life Threatening 44 (3.3%)
L 19 (1.4%)
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 126
Difficult to Remove 92
Malposition of Device 81
Difficult to Insert 65
Leak/Splash 57
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 57
Detachment Of Device Component 47
Replace 47
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 44
Kinked 44
Use of Device Problem 42
Device, removal of (non-implant) 40
Migration or Expulsion of Device 37
Fluid/Blood Leak 34
Material Separation 34
Material Puncture/Hole 31
Misplacement 27
Insufficient Device Problem Information 26
Disconnection 25
Obstruction of Flow 25

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: 74

Reports fell to 10 in 2025, down from an average of 48 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Tube, Feeding

Top Manufacturers

COVIDIEN 183
AVANOS MEDICAL INC. 157

Event Locations

484 (38.2%)
HOSPITAL 476 (37.6%)
I 203 (16.0%)
INVALID DATA 34 (2.7%)
NO INFORMATION 29 (2.3%)
UNKNOWN 15 (1.2%)
NURSING HOME 12 (0.9%)
HOME 7 (0.6%)
OTHER 5 (0.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare COVIDIEN vs AVANOS MEDICAL INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Feeding: 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 (1,266 here).

Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrate… 1,268 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 1,272 Bone Mill 1,273 Stylet, Catheter 1,275

Similar death-typed counts

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

Clamp, Vascular 78 Monitor, Bed Patient 80 Percutaneously Delivered Prostheses And Tri… 80 Stimulator 80

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.