SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
Manufacturer adverse-event records for SMITH & NEPHEW, 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 · 1995–2026 · heavy-book · quiet Death-code · balanced
Volume signature
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. sits in the heavy MAUDE book
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 84,009 FDA MAUDE reports (#41 of 434, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.05% (quiet); Injury share 37.3% (balanced).
What the volume reading shows for SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
The standout signal for SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. is filing volume: 84,009 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#41 of 434, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.05% (quiet).
As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.
Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 52,538 (62.5% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 14,403 reports across 31 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Devices (20)
Yearly Trend
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