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Wire, Surgical

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 Wire, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#616 of 1000 · 1,173 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 1,173 reports
  • RANK #616 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 418 injury-typed
  • MALF 735 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 140
  • PHOTO Holder

Nearest event-volume peer: Holder, Ureteral Catheter (0 report gap)

Wire, Surgical sits #616 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,173 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 35.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+5.2 pp)
  • MALF 62.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-1.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Wire, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Wire, Surgical carries 1,173 MAUDE reports, ranked #616 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 735 (62.7%)
Injury 418 (35.6%)
9 (0.8%)
Other 9 (0.8%)
Death 2 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

702 (59.0%)
Required Intervention 381 (32.0%)
Other 65 (5.5%)
R 18 (1.5%)
Hospitalization 15 (1.3%)
O 4 (0.3%)
Death 3 (0.3%)
D 1 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 286
Material Deformation 222
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 136
Device-Device Incompatibility 122
Entrapment of Device 104
Material Fragmentation 22
No Apparent Adverse Event 18
Migration 9
Material Twisted/Bent 8
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 7
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 5
Device Slipped 5
Difficult to Remove 5
Mechanical Jam 5
Bent 4
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 4
Device Handling Problem 4
Material Integrity Problem 4
Scratched Material 4
Defective Device 3

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 1
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 4
98
1998: 16
99
1999: 2
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 6
04
2004: 5
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 9
07
2007: 3
08
2008: 20
09
2009: 31
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 6
12
2012: 25
13
2013: 108
14
2014: 57
15
2015: 24
16
2016: 38
17
2017: 33
18
2018: 58
19
2019: 84
20
2020: 68
21
2021: 118
22
2022: 106
23
2023: 140
24
2024: 87
25
2025: 83
26
2026: 5

Related Entities for Wire, Surgical

Top Manufacturers

SYNTHES GMBH 506
SYNTHES USA 145
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 106
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 105
SYNTHES (USA) 40
WARSAW ORTHOPEDICS 15

Event Locations

721 (61.5%)
I 375 (32.0%)
HOSPITAL 61 (5.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.3%)
HOME 2 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs SYNTHES USA →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wire, Surgical, 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 (1,173 here).

Holder, Ureteral Catheter 1,173 Catheter, Percutaneous, Neurovasculature 1,170 Spinal Pedicle Screw 1,178 Endovascular Suturing System 1,165

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Analyzer, Chemistry Clinical Use 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wire, Surgical 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 Wire, Surgical; 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.