Wire, Surgical
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 §888.3030 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Wire, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#625 of 1000 · 1,199 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 1,199 reports
- RANK #625 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 421 injury-typed
- MALF 758 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2023: 140
- PHOTO Stretcher
Nearest event-volume peer: Stretcher, Hand-Carried (13 report gap)
Wire, Surgical sits #625 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,199 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Wire, Surgical carries 35.1% INJURY-coded reports, 4.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 35.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+4.8 pp)
- MALF 63.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-1.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Wire, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Lithotriptor
Lithotriptor, Ultrasonic
1,213 reports
- Surgical Film
Surgical Film
1,213 reports
- Stretcher
Stretcher, Hand-Carried
1,212 reports
- Wire, Surgical (this)
Wire, Surgical
1,199 reports
- System
System, Monitoring, Perinatal
1,183 reports
- Bed
Bed, Flotation Therapy, Powered
1,182 reports
What this shows Wire, Surgical carries 1,199 MAUDE reports, ranked #625 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 in 2025 (83) held close to the prior two-year average of 114.
Related Entities for Wire, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wire, Surgical: 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 (1,199 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.