ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (CINCINNATI)

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 · 2002–2010 · mid-book · typical Death-code · balanced

Injury-mix signature

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. keeps a balanced Injury share

Injury-coded event_type share is 9.9% (balanced tercile) beside 0.35% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: mid.

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

The standout signal for ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. (CINCINNATI) is Injury-mix: 9.9% Injury-coded (balanced) beside 0.35% 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 11,049 (89.2% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 4,044 reports across 9 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

12,392
Total Reports
43
Event-type Death
1,233
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 11,049 (89.2%)
Injury 1,233 (9.9%)
58 (0.5%)
Death 43 (0.3%)
Other 9 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,591 (76.7%)
Other 1,863 (14.9%)
Required Intervention 836 (6.7%)
R 90 (0.7%)
Hospitalization 55 (0.4%)
Death 42 (0.3%)
O 8 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)
S 3 (0.0%)
Disability 3 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

02
2002: 13
03
2003: 1,721
04
2004: 2,231
05
2005: 1,702
06
2006: 1,956
07
2007: 4,044
08
2008: 637
09
2009: 83
10
2010: 5