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Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated

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 Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#346 of 1000 · 4,162 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 4,162 reports
  • RANK #346 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 71 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,050 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 2,714
  • PHOTO Catheter, Straight

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Straight (15 report gap)

Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated sits #346 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,162 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 1.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.7 pp)
  • MALF 97.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Output below Specifications is 85% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated carries 4,162 MAUDE reports, ranked #346 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,050 (97.3%)
Injury 71 (1.7%)
Other 24 (0.6%)
15 (0.4%)
Death 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,960 (95.0%)
Other 132 (3.2%)
Required Intervention 48 (1.2%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.2%)
R 6 (0.1%)
Disability 4 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 4 (0.1%)
L 3 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.0%)
Death 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Output below Specifications 2,782
Insufficient Flow or Under Infusion 172
Infusion or Flow Problem 101
Improper Flow or Infusion 44
Inaccurate Delivery 26
Unexpected Therapeutic Results 21
Excess Flow or Over-Infusion 20
No Apparent Adverse Event 11
Detachment of Device or Device Component 10
Output above Specifications 10
Low Readings 9
Mechanical Problem 7
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 7
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Gas Output Problem 6
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 5
High Readings 5
Insufficient Information 5
Failure to Deliver 4
Gas/Air Leak 4

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 8
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 58
97
1997: 104
98
1998: 83
99
1999: 33
00
2000: 61
01
2001: 76
02
2002: 57
03
2003: 50
04
2004: 65
05
2005: 52
06
2006: 47
07
2007: 30
08
2008: 29
09
2009: 39
10
2010: 32
11
2011: 41
12
2012: 14
13
2013: 12
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 41
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 14
18
2018: 11
19
2019: 12
20
2020: 11
21
2021: 12
22
2022: 13
23
2023: 44
24
2024: 255
25
2025: 2,714
26
2026: 118

Related Entities for Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated

Top Manufacturers

DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. 3,255
DATEX-OHMEDA INC. 32
DATEX-OHMEDA, INC 22

Event Locations

3,590 (86.3%)
HOSPITAL 385 (9.3%)
I 87 (2.1%)
INVALID DATA 77 (1.9%)
NO INFORMATION 10 (0.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
OTHER 3 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare DATEX-OHMEDA, INC. vs DATEX-OHMEDA INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated, 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 (4,162 here).

Catheter, Straight 4,147 Prosthesis 4,144 Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered 4,210 Computer, Diagnostic, Programmable 4,214

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Analyzer, Chemistry Clinical Use 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated 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 Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated; 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.