2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff

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 §868.5800 (Anesthesiology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#172 of 1000 · 14,927 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 14,927 reports
  • RANK #172 of 1000
  • DEATH 164 death-typed
  • INJ 5,185 injury-typed
  • MALF 9,526 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 1,632
  • PHOTO Pump

Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Infusion, Enteral (15 report gap)

Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff sits #172 of 1000 among tracked device types with 14,927 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff carries 34.7% INJURY-coded reports, 4.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.1% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.4 pp)
  • INJ 34.7% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+4.4 pp)
  • MALF 63.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Inflation Problem is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .

Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff carries 14,927 MAUDE reports, ranked #172 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 9,526 (63.8%)
Injury 5,185 (34.7%)
Death 164 (1.1%)
27 (0.2%)
Other 25 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,238 (59.7%)
Required Intervention 4,507 (29.1%)
Other 535 (3.5%)
R 408 (2.6%)
Life Threatening 329 (2.1%)
Death 158 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 99 (0.6%)
L 70 (0.5%)
O 58 (0.4%)
H 23 (0.1%)
S 13 (0.1%)
Disability 13 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 11 (0.1%)
D 7 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Inflation Problem 1,850
Air Leak 1,716
Gas/Air Leak 1,536
Use of Device Problem 1,490
Leak/Splash 1,194
Break 763
Material Split, Cut or Torn 606
Defective Component 515
Fluid/Blood Leak 430
Disconnection 368
Connection Problem 316
Crack 290
Material Separation 259
Deflation Problem 242
Detachment Of Device Component 223
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 223
Fracture 200
Defective Device 186
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 175
Replace 173

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 1
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 29
98
1998: 8
99
1999: 22
00
2000: 35
01
2001: 54
02
2002: 70
03
2003: 25
04
2004: 41
05
2005: 30
06
2006: 37
07
2007: 167
08
2008: 102
09
2009: 195
10
2010: 1,270
11
2011: 587
12
2012: 500
13
2013: 544
14
2014: 506
15
2015: 508
16
2016: 572
17
2017: 441
18
2018: 812
19
2019: 1,019
20
2020: 791
21
2021: 1,041
22
2022: 1,632
23
2023: 1,233
24
2024: 1,103
25
2025: 998
26
2026: 545

Reports in 2025 (998) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,168.

Related Entities for Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff

Event Locations

8,711 (58.4%)
I 4,418 (29.6%)
HOSPITAL 1,207 (8.1%)
HOME 464 (3.1%)
NO INFORMATION 66 (0.4%)
INVALID DATA 27 (0.2%)
OTHER 24 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 8 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

Compare SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. vs MMJ SA DE CV (USD) →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff: 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 (14,927 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (164 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff 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 Tracheostomy And Tube Cuff; 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.