AVANOS MEDICAL INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for AVANOS MEDICAL INC. come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2018–2026 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

AVANOS MEDICAL INC. is a thinner MAUDE footprint

AVANOS MEDICAL INC. accounts for 4,388 FDA MAUDE reports (#387 of 443, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 2.07% (elevated); Injury share 21.7% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for AVANOS MEDICAL INC.

The standout signal for AVANOS MEDICAL INC. is filing volume: 4,388 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#387 of 443, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 2.07% (elevated).

As a thinner-book manufacturer, a handful of device families can swing the totals; open the device table rather than reading the company headline alone. Event_type counts are not the same population as Patient Outcomes.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,345 (76.2% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 657 reports across 9 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

4,388
Total Reports
91
Event-type Death
952
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,345 (76.2%)
Injury 952 (21.7%)
Death 91 (2.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,285 (69.9%)
Other 590 (12.5%)
Required Intervention 340 (7.2%)
R 119 (2.5%)
O 107 (2.3%)
Death 79 (1.7%)
Hospitalization 44 (0.9%)
L 41 (0.9%)
Life Threatening 37 (0.8%)
D 31 (0.7%)
H 26 (0.6%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

18
2018: 364
19
2019: 496
20
2020: 470
21
2021: 378
22
2022: 648
23
2023: 657
24
2024: 654
25
2025: 580
26
2026: 141