ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB 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 · 1998–2003 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB is a thinner MAUDE footprint

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB accounts for 4,470 FDA MAUDE reports (#391 of 434, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.81% (elevated); Injury share 11.7% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB

The standout signal for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY - ALB is filing volume: 4,470 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#391 of 434, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.81% (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 8 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,882 (86.8% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 1,660 reports across 6 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

4,470
Total Reports
36
Event-type Death
521
Injury Reports
8
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,882 (86.8%)
Injury 521 (11.7%)
Death 36 (0.8%)
29 (0.6%)
Other 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 3,888 (86.2%)
Required Intervention 444 (9.8%)
106 (2.3%)
R 34 (0.8%)
Death 25 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 13 (0.3%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

98
1998: 542
99
1999: 893
00
2000: 744
01
2001: 1,660
02
2002: 629
03
2003: 2