ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY 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 · 1993–2021 · thin-book · typical Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY is a thinner MAUDE footprint

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY accounts for 6,754 FDA MAUDE reports (#303 of 443, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.40% (typical); Injury share 12.2% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY

The standout signal for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY is filing volume: 6,754 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#303 of 443, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.40% (typical).

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 5,813 (86.1% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 1,620 reports across 29 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

6,754
Total Reports
27
Event-type Death
823
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 5,813 (86.1%)
Injury 823 (12.2%)
70 (1.0%)
Death 27 (0.4%)
Other 21 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 5,340 (78.2%)
Required Intervention 670 (9.8%)
641 (9.4%)
R 51 (0.7%)
Hospitalization 50 (0.7%)
Death 29 (0.4%)
Disability 23 (0.3%)
O 10 (0.1%)
L 7 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.1%)
S 4 (0.1%)

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 5
94
1994: 47
95
1995: 48
96
1996: 11
97
1997: 19
98
1998: 1,070
99
1999: 1,620
00
2000: 1,488
01
2001: 1,605
02
2002: 274
03
2003: 45
04
2004: 15
05
2005: 14
06
2006: 14
07
2007: 28
08
2008: 20
09
2009: 18
10
2010: 61
11
2011: 45
12
2012: 73
13
2013: 55
14
2014: 67
15
2015: 20
16
2016: 30
17
2017: 33
18
2018: 18
19
2019: 4
20
2020: 3
21
2021: 4