PHILIPS HEALTHCARE

Manufacturer adverse-event records for PHILIPS HEALTHCARE 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 · 2008–2025 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Death-code intensity

PHILIPS HEALTHCARE carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 263 of 4,684 (5.61% · elevated tercile among 434 manufacturers). Absolute volume is thin-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for PHILIPS HEALTHCARE

The standout signal for PHILIPS HEALTHCARE is Death-code intensity: 5.61% of 4,684 reports (elevated tercile), while absolute volume is thin-book.

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 3,869 (82.6% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 1,892 reports across 15 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

4,684
Total Reports
263
Event-type Death
508
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,869 (82.6%)
Injury 508 (10.8%)
Death 263 (5.6%)
Other 34 (0.7%)
10 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,935 (83.6%)
Other 445 (9.5%)
Death 218 (4.6%)
Required Intervention 39 (0.8%)
Life Threatening 22 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 20 (0.4%)
R 8 (0.2%)
O 5 (0.1%)
S 4 (0.1%)
Disability 4 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 13
09
2009: 674
10
2010: 1,191
11
2011: 1,892
12
2012: 99
13
2013: 60
14
2014: 127
15
2015: 115
16
2016: 128
17
2017: 112
18
2018: 98
19
2019: 110
20
2020: 61
22
2022: 3
25
2025: 1