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Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter

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 Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#700 of 1000 · 842 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 842 reports
  • RANK #700 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 54 injury-typed
  • MALF 787 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 256
  • PHOTO Plate

Nearest event-volume peer: Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable (0 report gap)

Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter sits #700 of 1000 among tracked device types with 842 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 6.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-24.0 pp)
  • MALF 93.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Cut is 66% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HOUSTON accounts for 87% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 84% of location-tagged rows .

Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter carries 842 MAUDE reports, ranked #700 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 787 (93.5%)
Injury 54 (6.4%)
Other 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

773 (91.5%)
Required Intervention 42 (5.0%)
Other 23 (2.7%)
Disability 5 (0.6%)
O 1 (0.1%)
R 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Cut 524
Suction Problem 91
Suction Failure 90
Air/Gas in Device 13
Break 13
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 8
Material Twisted/Bent 8
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Dull, Blunt 5
Complete Blockage 4
Contamination 4
Decrease in Suction 4
Mechanical Problem 4
Defective Device 3
Disconnection 3
Incorrect Device Or Component Shipped 3
Material Separation 3
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 3
Detachment of Device or Device Component 2

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 2
97
1997: 9
01
2001: 3
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 13
06
2006: 31
07
2007: 15
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 13
10
2010: 2
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 3
13
2013: 4
14
2014: 2
16
2016: 5
17
2017: 10
18
2018: 8
19
2019: 6
20
2020: 54
21
2021: 40
22
2022: 40
23
2023: 92
24
2024: 188
25
2025: 256
26
2026: 28

Related Entities for Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter

Top Manufacturers

ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HOUSTON 667
BAUSCH & LOMB 50
BAUSCH & LOMB, INC. 22
ALCON LABORATORIES, INC. 16
ABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS 6
ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - ALCON PRECISION DEVICE 4

Event Locations

705 (83.7%)
I 90 (10.7%)
HOSPITAL 30 (3.6%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.6%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.4%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.4%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - HOUSTON vs BAUSCH & LOMB →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter, 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 (842 here).

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable 842 Tubing, Fluid Delivery 842 Device, Endoscopic Suturing 843 Probe, Radiofrequency Lesion 844

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter 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 Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter; 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.