2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Valve, Pulmonary

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 Valve, Pulmonary LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#501 of 1000 · 2,016 reports · 2018–2026

  • BOOK 2,016 reports
  • RANK #501 of 1000
  • DEATH 179 death-typed
  • INJ 1,713 injury-typed
  • MALF 124 malfunction
  • SPAN 2018–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 405
  • PHOTO Electrode

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrode, Pacemaker, Temporary (4 report gap)

Valve, Pulmonary sits #501 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,016 MAUDE reports spanning 2018–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Valve, Pulmonary carries 6.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 58.7pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 8.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+7.4 pp)
  • INJ 85.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+54.7 pp)
  • MALF 6.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-58.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 90% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer GYRUS ACMI, INC. accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Valve, Pulmonary in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Valve, Pulmonary carries 2,016 MAUDE reports, ranked #501 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,713 (85.0%)
Death 179 (8.9%)
Malfunction 124 (6.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

R 1,183 (30.5%)
Hospitalization 1,158 (29.9%)
Required Intervention 658 (17.0%)
H 483 (12.5%)
Death 130 (3.4%)
L 83 (2.1%)
D 56 (1.4%)
O 52 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 29 (0.7%)
23 (0.6%)
Other 10 (0.3%)
S 6 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,827
Material Split, Cut or Torn 101
Insufficient Device Problem Information 57
Migration 9
Detachment of Device or Device Component 8
Difficult to Remove 4
Non Reproducible Results 4
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 3
Lack of Effect 3
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 3
Defective Component 2
Material Integrity Problem 2
Off-Label Use 2
Use of Device Problem 2
Activation Failure 1
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 1
Defective Device 1
Device Contamination with Body Fluid 1
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 1
Device Damaged Prior to Use 1

Yearly Trend

18
2018: 14
19
2019: 215
20
2020: 344
21
2021: 405
22
2022: 342
23
2023: 266
24
2024: 176
25
2025: 148
26
2026: 106

Reports in 2025 (148) held close to the prior two-year average of 221.

Related Entities for Valve, Pulmonary

Event Locations

1,126 (55.9%)
I 880 (43.7%)
HOSPITAL 8 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.1%)

Compare GYRUS ACMI, INC. vs GYRUS ACMI, INC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Valve, Pulmonary: 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 (2,016 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (179 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Valve, Pulmonary 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 Valve, Pulmonary; 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.