2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Tube, Tracheal (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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Tube, Tracheal MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#142 of 1000 · 18,473 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 18,473 reports
  • RANK #142 of 1000
  • DEATH 254 death-typed
  • INJ 3,737 injury-typed
  • MALF 14,076 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,813
  • PHOTO Suture

Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyethylene (24 report gap)

Tube, Tracheal (W/Wo Connector) sits #142 of 1000 among tracked device types with 18,473 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 1.4% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.1 pp)
  • INJ 20.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-10.2 pp)
  • MALF 76.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+11.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Gas/Air Leak is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MMJ SA DE CV (USD) accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Tube, Tracheal in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tube, Tracheal (W/Wo Connector) carries 18,473 MAUDE reports, ranked #142 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 14,076 (76.2%)
Injury 3,737 (20.2%)
Other 347 (1.9%)
Death 254 (1.4%)
59 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

13,281 (70.1%)
Required Intervention 3,341 (17.6%)
Other 986 (5.2%)
R 381 (2.0%)
Life Threatening 365 (1.9%)
Death 248 (1.3%)
Hospitalization 103 (0.5%)
O 88 (0.5%)
L 85 (0.4%)
H 24 (0.1%)
Disability 14 (0.1%)
D 13 (0.1%)
S 13 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 7 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Gas/Air Leak 2,847
Use of Device Problem 2,350
Inflation Problem 1,455
Leak/Splash 784
Material Split, Cut or Torn 620
Disconnection 596
Defective Component 508
Deflation Problem 302
Connection Problem 290
Detachment of Device or Device Component 274
Air Leak 190
Material Puncture/Hole 174
Break 170
Material Integrity Problem 155
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 153
Material Rupture 133
Insufficient Information 128
Obstruction of Flow 127
Material Twisted/Bent 126
Material Separation 120

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
93
1993: 8
94
1994: 34
95
1995: 26
96
1996: 47
97
1997: 148
98
1998: 159
99
1999: 111
00
2000: 127
01
2001: 150
02
2002: 85
03
2003: 62
04
2004: 65
05
2005: 115
06
2006: 101
07
2007: 136
08
2008: 169
09
2009: 155
10
2010: 335
11
2011: 422
12
2012: 511
13
2013: 807
14
2014: 985
15
2015: 1,016
16
2016: 836
17
2017: 812
18
2018: 977
19
2019: 1,379
20
2020: 1,070
21
2021: 1,329
22
2022: 1,132
23
2023: 1,330
24
2024: 1,678
25
2025: 1,813
26
2026: 339

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

Event Locations

10,232 (55.4%)
I 6,517 (35.3%)
HOSPITAL 1,447 (7.8%)
NO INFORMATION 119 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 46 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 32 (0.2%)
HOME 30 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 15 (0.1%)
OTHER 15 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 10 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 3 (0.0%)

Compare MMJ SA DE CV (USD) vs TELEFLEX MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Tracheal, 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 (18,473 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (254 here), distinct from the volume row.

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