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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable

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, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#823 of 1000 · 607 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 607 reports
  • RANK #823 of 1000
  • DEATH 80 death-typed
  • INJ 243 injury-typed
  • MALF 230 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 1997: 40
  • PHOTO Cutter, Surgical

Nearest event-volume peer: Cutter, Surgical (0 report gap)

Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable sits #823 of 1000 among tracked device types with 607 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 → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable carries 37.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 26.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 13.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+11.7 pp)
  • INJ 40.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+9.7 pp)
  • MALF 37.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-26.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 20% of coded problems · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable carries 607 MAUDE reports, ranked #823 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 243 (40.0%)
Malfunction 230 (37.9%)
Death 80 (13.2%)
Other 48 (7.9%)
6 (1.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

192 (28.8%)
Other 168 (25.2%)
Hospitalization 83 (12.4%)
Required Intervention 79 (11.8%)
Death 78 (11.7%)
R 21 (3.1%)
L 10 (1.5%)
H 9 (1.3%)
S 9 (1.3%)
O 8 (1.2%)
Disability 5 (0.7%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.7%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 117
Leak/Splash 94
Fire 50
Use of Device Problem 43
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 39
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 28
Insufficient Device Problem Information 23
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 23
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 20
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 17
Replace 17
Air Leak 15
Failure to Deliver 15
Component(s), broken 14
Sticking 13
Valve(s), defective 13
Gas/Air Leak 11
Explode 10
Break 8
Design/structure problem 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 3
94
1994: 1
96
1996: 23
97
1997: 40
98
1998: 22
99
1999: 17
00
2000: 25
01
2001: 27
02
2002: 13
03
2003: 21
04
2004: 16
05
2005: 15
06
2006: 27
07
2007: 24
08
2008: 33
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 25
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 11
13
2013: 22
14
2014: 25
15
2015: 34
16
2016: 19
17
2017: 18
18
2018: 21
19
2019: 24
20
2020: 39
21
2021: 7
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 10
24
2024: 10
25
2025: 1
26
2026: 2

Reports fell to 1 in 2025, down from an average of 10 in the two years before.

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Event Locations

322 (53.0%)
I 128 (21.1%)
HOME 49 (8.1%)
OTHER 30 (4.9%)
HOSPITAL 28 (4.6%)
NURSING HOME 18 (3.0%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (2.6%)
INVALID DATA 7 (1.2%)
UNKNOWN 6 (1.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.5%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable: 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 (607 here).

Cutter, Surgical 607 Endoscope 608 Source, Brachytherapy, Radionuclide 606 Probe 602

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (80 here), distinct from the volume row.

Monitor, Bed Patient 80 Percutaneously Delivered Prostheses And Tri… 80 Stimulator 80 Instrument, Ultrasonic Surgical 81

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Unit, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable 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, Liquid-Oxygen, Portable; 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.