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Ventilator, Non-Continuous (Respirator)

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, Non-Continuous HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#15 of 1000 · 265,078 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 265,078 reports
  • RANK #15 of 1000
  • DEATH 4,544 death-typed
  • INJ 53,547 injury-typed
  • MALF 206,793 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 90,768
  • PHOTO Automated External De…

Nearest event-volume peer: Automated External Defibrillators (Non-Wearable) (1,257 report gap)

Ventilator, Non-Continuous (Respirator) sits #15 of 1000 among tracked device types with 265,078 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 1.7% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.2 pp)
  • INJ 20.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-10.2 pp)
  • MALF 78.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+13.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Degraded is 91% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer RESPIRONICS, INC. accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 99% of location-tagged rows .

Ventilator, Non-Continuous in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Ventilator, Non-Continuous (Respirator) carries 265,078 MAUDE reports, ranked #15 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 206,793 (78.0%)
Injury 53,547 (20.2%)
Death 4,544 (1.7%)
Other 143 (0.1%)
51 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

203,196 (76.0%)
Other 50,387 (18.8%)
Death 4,426 (1.7%)
Required Intervention 2,210 (0.8%)
Life Threatening 2,062 (0.8%)
Hospitalization 1,305 (0.5%)
O 989 (0.4%)
Disability 727 (0.3%)
R 661 (0.2%)
S 420 (0.2%)
H 383 (0.1%)
L 273 (0.1%)
D 184 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 104 (0.0%)
C 62 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Degraded 252,039
Contamination 11,359
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3,051
Corroded 2,467
Overheating of Device 1,877
Nonstandard Device 771
No Apparent Adverse Event 686
Device Emits Odor 669
Insufficient Information 503
Patient-Device Incompatibility 409
Material Integrity Problem 405
Smoking 367
Noise, Audible 277
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 275
Excessive Heating 275
Power Problem 254
Fire 241
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 215
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 211
Temperature Problem 204

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
96
1996: 4
97
1997: 11
98
1998: 9
99
1999: 36
00
2000: 42
01
2001: 46
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 16
04
2004: 66
05
2005: 23
06
2006: 18
07
2007: 65
08
2008: 67
09
2009: 147
10
2010: 143
11
2011: 189
12
2012: 139
13
2013: 82
14
2014: 86
15
2015: 114
16
2016: 118
17
2017: 148
18
2018: 101
19
2019: 188
20
2020: 126
21
2021: 6,066
22
2022: 90,768
23
2023: 27,987
24
2024: 68,264
25
2025: 60,714
26
2026: 9,287

Related Entities for Ventilator, Non-Continuous (Respirator)

Top Manufacturers

RESPIRONICS, INC. 232,651
RESPIRONICS, INC 12,555
RESPIRONICS INC 6,442
RESPIRONICS,INC 4,202
RESPIRONICS INC. 1,884
RESPIRONICS,INC. 894
PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC 524

Event Locations

262,867 (99.2%)
I 1,109 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 789 (0.3%)
HOSPITAL 133 (0.1%)
HOME 104 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 45 (0.0%)
OTHER 24 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare RESPIRONICS, INC. vs RESPIRONICS, INC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ventilator, Non-Continuous, 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 (265,078 here).

Automated External Defibrillators 263,821 Sensor, Glucose, Invasive 280,884 Drug Eluting Permanent Right Ventricular Or… 218,060 Permanent Pacemaker Electrode 313,884

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4,544 here), distinct from the volume row.

Temporary Non-Roller Type Left Heart Suppor… 4,677 Defibrillator 4,732 Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable 3,860 Wearable Automated External Defibrillator 3,639

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

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