2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#259 of 1000 · 6,957 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 6,957 reports
  • RANK #259 of 1000
  • DEATH 47 death-typed
  • INJ 144 injury-typed
  • MALF 6,716 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 1,548
  • PHOTO Hearing Aid

Nearest event-volume peer: Hearing Aid, Bone Conduction (16 report gap)

Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid sits #259 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,957 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 2.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.4 pp)
  • MALF 96.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 64% of location-tagged rows .

Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid carries 6,957 MAUDE reports, ranked #259 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 6,716 (96.5%)
Injury 144 (2.1%)
Death 47 (0.7%)
Other 27 (0.4%)
23 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

6,671 (95.6%)
Required Intervention 101 (1.4%)
Other 80 (1.1%)
Hospitalization 38 (0.5%)
Death 37 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.2%)
R 13 (0.2%)
L 7 (0.1%)
O 7 (0.1%)
Disability 5 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 1,413
Device Alarm System 590
Leak/Splash 553
Temperature Problem 441
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 290
Crack 254
Break 226
Insufficient Heating 220
No Audible Alarm 193
Defective Alarm 186
Overheating of Device 182
Power Problem 182
Mechanical Problem 166
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 131
Excessive Heating 121
False Alarm 117
Failure to Pump 114
Defective Component 113
Fracture 113
Failure to Power Up 112

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 3
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 8
97
1997: 7
98
1998: 9
99
1999: 18
00
2000: 4
01
2001: 8
02
2002: 50
03
2003: 38
04
2004: 19
05
2005: 51
06
2006: 23
07
2007: 11
08
2008: 10
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 43
11
2011: 54
12
2012: 52
13
2013: 16
14
2014: 23
15
2015: 34
16
2016: 15
17
2017: 58
18
2018: 94
19
2019: 340
20
2020: 1,221
21
2021: 885
22
2022: 1,548
23
2023: 1,033
24
2024: 862
25
2025: 380
26
2026: 23

Related Entities for Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid

Event Locations

4,473 (64.3%)
I 2,259 (32.5%)
HOSPITAL 183 (2.6%)
NO INFORMATION 20 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 9 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 5 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.1%)
OTHER 2 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. vs ST PAUL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid, 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 (6,957 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (47 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid 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 Warmer, Thermal, Infusion Fluid; 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.