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 5,073 FDA MAUDE reports (#370 of 434, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 1.85% (elevated); Injury share 20.3% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for AVANOS MEDICAL INC.

The standout signal for AVANOS MEDICAL INC. is filing volume: 5,073 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#370 of 434, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 1.85% (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 3,949 (77.8% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 827 reports across 9 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

5,073
Total Reports
94
Event-type Death
1,029
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,949 (77.8%)
Injury 1,029 (20.3%)
Death 94 (1.9%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,822 (71.4%)
Other 659 (12.3%)
Required Intervention 355 (6.6%)
R 124 (2.3%)
O 111 (2.1%)
Death 80 (1.5%)
Hospitalization 57 (1.1%)
L 42 (0.8%)
Life Threatening 38 (0.7%)
D 34 (0.6%)
H 29 (0.5%)
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: 579
26
2026: 827