2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting

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 Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#221 of 1000 · 9,447 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 9,447 reports
  • RANK #221 of 1000
  • DEATH 389 death-typed
  • INJ 1,187 injury-typed
  • MALF 7,850 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 2,514
  • PHOTO Ring, Annuloplasty

Nearest event-volume peer: Ring, Annuloplasty (24 report gap)

Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting sits #221 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,447 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 4.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.6 pp)
  • INJ 12.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-17.9 pp)
  • MALF 83.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+18.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Degraded is 77% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer RESPIRONICS, INC. accounts for 88% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 94% of location-tagged rows .

Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting carries 9,447 MAUDE reports, ranked #221 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 7,850 (83.1%)
Injury 1,187 (12.6%)
Death 389 (4.1%)
Other 20 (0.2%)
1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

7,507 (78.5%)
Other 1,117 (11.7%)
Death 393 (4.1%)
Required Intervention 112 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 85 (0.9%)
Life Threatening 68 (0.7%)
R 65 (0.7%)
Disability 47 (0.5%)
L 41 (0.4%)
H 38 (0.4%)
O 32 (0.3%)
S 25 (0.3%)
D 22 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 7 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Degraded 7,572
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 571
Contamination 361
Circuit Failure 339
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 269
Corroded 233
Unexpected Shutdown 69
Device Displays Incorrect Message 55
Nonstandard Device 48
Failure to Power Up 44
Battery Problem 41
Overheating of Device 41
Device Alarm System 33
Power Problem 31
Device Sensing Problem 28
Pressure Problem 28
Insufficient Information 26
Output Problem 26
Thermal Decomposition of Device 23
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 22

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 2
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 1
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 5
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 2
07
2007: 9
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 8
10
2010: 9
11
2011: 9
12
2012: 12
13
2013: 18
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 50
16
2016: 16
17
2017: 20
18
2018: 22
19
2019: 275
20
2020: 64
21
2021: 256
22
2022: 2,514
23
2023: 1,320
24
2024: 1,570
25
2025: 1,811
26
2026: 1,435

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Event Locations

8,920 (94.4%)
I 473 (5.0%)
NO INFORMATION 33 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 13 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.0%)
HOME 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare RESPIRONICS, INC. vs RESPIRONICS CALIFORNIA, INC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting, 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 (9,447 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (389 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting 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 Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting; 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.