ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, 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 · 1993–2026 · mid-book · typical Death-code · injury-light

Injury-mix signature

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. is lighter on Injury codes

Injury-coded event_type share is 8.0% (injury-light tercile) beside 0.48% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: mid.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC.

The standout signal for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. is Injury-mix: 8.0% Injury-coded (injury-light) beside 0.48% Death-coded, on a mid-book footprint.

Mid-pack volume still shows a clear device fingerprint; the table below is the actionable layer for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC.. Event_type Death/Injury codes differ from patient-outcome rows - see methodology.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 16,265 (90.4% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 3,730 reports across 34 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

17,996
Total Reports
86
Event-type Death
1,432
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 16,265 (90.4%)
Injury 1,432 (8.0%)
166 (0.9%)
Death 86 (0.5%)
Other 47 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 12,358 (67.4%)
4,573 (24.9%)
Required Intervention 859 (4.7%)
R 185 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 126 (0.7%)
Death 77 (0.4%)
O 60 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 26 (0.1%)
L 25 (0.1%)
S 14 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 11 (0.1%)
Disability 9 (0.0%)
H 5 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 787
97
1997: 3,259
98
1998: 1,351
99
1999: 786
00
2000: 3,730
01
2001: 2,617
02
2002: 407
03
2003: 235
04
2004: 860
05
2005: 680
06
2006: 608
07
2007: 708
08
2008: 245
09
2009: 173
10
2010: 92
11
2011: 179
12
2012: 118
13
2013: 154
14
2014: 132
15
2015: 132
16
2016: 142
17
2017: 87
18
2018: 91
19
2019: 149
20
2020: 76
21
2021: 36
22
2022: 50
23
2023: 36
24
2024: 30
25
2025: 33
26
2026: 4