2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector)

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §868.5740 (Anesthesiology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Tube LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#553 of 1000 · 1,573 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,573 reports
  • RANK #553 of 1000
  • DEATH 12 death-typed
  • INJ 168 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,350 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 159
  • PHOTO Wrench

Nearest event-volume peer: Wrench (2 report gap)

Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector) sits #553 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,573 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Tube carries 85.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 21.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 10.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.6 pp)
  • MALF 85.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+21.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 77% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 41% of location-tagged rows .

Tube in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector) carries 1,573 MAUDE reports, ranked #553 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,350 (85.8%)
Injury 168 (10.7%)
Other 41 (2.6%)
Death 12 (0.8%)
2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,275 (79.9%)
Other 149 (9.3%)
Required Intervention 118 (7.4%)
R 18 (1.1%)
Life Threatening 13 (0.8%)
Death 10 (0.6%)
O 4 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.2%)
L 2 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 241
Leak/Splash 208
Inflation Problem 174
Balloon leak(s) 137
Air Leak 122
Gas/Air Leak 108
Deflation Problem 63
Balloon burst 59
Tears, rips, holes in device, device material 51
Replace 49
Defective Component 33
Material Rupture 30
Component Missing 25
Difficult to Insert 25
Balloon rupture 23
Crack 22
Material Separation 22
Deflation, cause unknown 18
Device, removal of (non-implant) 18
Loose or Intermittent Connection 17

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 1
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 32
97
1997: 77
98
1998: 33
99
1999: 27
00
2000: 66
01
2001: 99
02
2002: 78
03
2003: 22
04
2004: 29
05
2005: 13
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 11
08
2008: 16
09
2009: 26
10
2010: 25
11
2011: 20
12
2012: 23
13
2013: 26
14
2014: 18
15
2015: 8
16
2016: 29
17
2017: 61
18
2018: 66
19
2019: 94
20
2020: 87
21
2021: 159
22
2022: 127
23
2023: 95
24
2024: 75
25
2025: 85
26
2026: 33

Reports in 2025 (85) held close to the prior two-year average of 85.

Related Entities for Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector)

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

640 (40.7%)
HOSPITAL 495 (31.5%)
I 412 (26.2%)
INVALID DATA 15 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 7 (0.4%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
OTHER 2 (0.1%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs COOK INC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube: 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 (1,573 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (12 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube 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; 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.