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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered

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 Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#702 of 1000 · 828 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 828 reports
  • RANK #702 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 41 injury-typed
  • MALF 781 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 102
  • PHOTO Hammer, Surgical

Nearest event-volume peer: Hammer, Surgical (1 report gap)

Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered sits #702 of 1000 among tracked device types with 828 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 5.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-25.5 pp)
  • MALF 94.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Deliver Energy is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .

Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered carries 828 MAUDE reports, ranked #702 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 781 (94.3%)
Injury 41 (5.0%)
4 (0.5%)
Other 2 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

775 (93.5%)
Required Intervention 25 (3.0%)
Other 22 (2.7%)
Invalid Data 3 (0.4%)
R 2 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Deliver Energy 200
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 125
Intermittent Continuity 62
Break 38
Device Stops Intermittently 13
Intermittent Loss of Power 13
Crack 12
Insufficient Information 11
Component Missing 8
Detachment of Device or Device Component 8
Connection Problem 7
Noise, Audible 7
Power Problem 7
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Failure to Power Up 5
Mechanical Problem 5
No Apparent Adverse Event 5
Device Inoperable 4
Electrical Shorting 4
Loss of Power 4

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 5
93
1993: 9
94
1994: 3
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 20
97
1997: 48
98
1998: 3
01
2001: 1
03
2003: 1
05
2005: 1
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 30
12
2012: 29
13
2013: 40
14
2014: 55
15
2015: 42
16
2016: 56
18
2018: 17
19
2019: 73
20
2020: 44
21
2021: 56
22
2022: 53
23
2023: 48
24
2024: 66
25
2025: 102
26
2026: 11

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Top Manufacturers

MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC 432
MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC 149
MAQUET CV 100
MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC. 14

Event Locations

481 (58.1%)
I 255 (30.8%)
HOSPITAL 63 (7.6%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 20 (2.4%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR LLC vs MAQUET CARDIOVASCULAR, LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered, 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 (828 here).

Hammer, Surgical 827 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polyester 824 Forceps, Ophthalmic 823 Clamp, Circumcision 836

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered 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 Unit, Cautery, Thermal, Ac-Powered; 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.