Wheelchair, Powered
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §890.3860 (Physical Medicine panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Wheelchair, Powered MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#107 of 1000 · 30,542 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 30,542 reports
- RANK #107 of 1000
- DEATH 188 death-typed
- INJ 2,983 injury-typed
- MALF 26,751 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2013: 8,741
- PHOTO Dialysate Concentrate…
Nearest event-volume peer: Dialysate Concentrate For Hemodialysis (Liquid Or Powder) (534 report gap)
Wheelchair, Powered sits #107 of 1000 among tracked device types with 30,542 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Wheelchair, Powered carries 87.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 22.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
- INJ 9.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.5 pp)
- MALF 87.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+22.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device Operates Differently Than Expected is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVACARE TAYLOR STREET accounts for 88% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .
Wheelchair, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Monitor
Monitor, Physiological, Patient(With Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms)
32,228 reports
- Bronchoscope
Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
31,113 reports
- Wheelchair (this)
Wheelchair, Powered
30,542 reports
- Dialysate Con…
Dialysate Concentrate For Hemodialysis (Liquid Or Powder)
30,008 reports
- Drill
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
29,783 reports
- Reamer
Reamer
29,419 reports
What this shows Wheelchair, Powered carries 30,542 MAUDE reports, ranked #107 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports rose to 651 in 2025, up from an average of 185 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Wheelchair, Powered
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wheelchair, Powered: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (30,542 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (188 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wheelchair, Powered 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 Wheelchair, Powered; 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.