What are FDA adverse event reports for Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories, there are 3,107 total reports including 50 death reports and 789 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories

Name: Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#382 of 1000 · 3,107 reports · 1994–2026

BOOK 3,107 reports
RANK #382 of 1000
DEATH 50 death-typed
INJ 789 injury-typed
MALF 2,172 malfunction
SPAN 1994–2026
PEAK 2019: 455
PHOTO Apparatus

Nearest event-volume peer: Apparatus, Autotransfusion (8 report gap)

Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories sits #382 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,107 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 → · 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 1.6% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.1 pp)
INJ 25.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-5.0 pp)
MALF 69.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+5.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 18% of coded problems · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Scaler

3,134
System

3,131
Apparatus

3,115
Unit (this)

3,107
Monitor

3,091
Collector

3,090

What this shows Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories carries 3,107 MAUDE reports, ranked #382 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 2,172 (69.9%)

Injury 789 (25.4%)

Other 70 (2.3%)

Death 50 (1.6%)

26 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,722 (51.6%)

Other 716 (21.5%)

Required Intervention 422 (12.7%)

Hospitalization 158 (4.7%)

R 133 (4.0%)

Death 49 (1.5%)

O 34 (1.0%)

L 27 (0.8%)

Life Threatening 23 (0.7%)

S 17 (0.5%)

H 14 (0.4%)

Disability 13 (0.4%)

D 4 (0.1%)

C 1 (0.0%)

Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1994: 5

1995: 6

1996: 4

1997: 11

1998: 10

1999: 12

2000: 9

2001: 10

2002: 8

2003: 24

2004: 52

2005: 26

2006: 15

2007: 23

2008: 29

2009: 21

2010: 173

2011: 61

2012: 91

2013: 91

2014: 57

2015: 97

2016: 143

2017: 216

2018: 208

2019: 455

2020: 277

2021: 213

2022: 230

2023: 164

2024: 141

2025: 174

2026: 51

Event Locations

1,544 (49.7%)

I 1,396 (44.9%)

HOSPITAL 90 (2.9%)

NO INFORMATION 21 (0.7%)

HOME 16 (0.5%)

NOT APPLICABLE 9 (0.3%)

OTHER 8 (0.3%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 7 (0.2%)

UNKNOWN 7 (0.2%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.2%)

INVALID DATA 3 (0.1%)

OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 1 (0.0%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories, 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 (3,107 here).

Apparatus, Autotransfusion 3,115 Monitor, Cardiac 3,091 Collector 3,090 System 3,131

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (50 here), distinct from the volume row.

Hexokinase, Glucose 49 Needle, Fistula 49 Prosthesis 49 Prosthesis 51

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories 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, Cryosurgical, Accessories; 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.

Unit, Cryosurgical, Accessories

Event-type mix vs corpus