SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS LTD
Manufacturer adverse-event records for SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS LTD 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 · 2009–2026 · thin-book · typical Death-code · injury-heavy
Injury-mix signature
SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS LTD leans injury-heavy in event_type mix
Injury-coded event_type share is 98.2% (injury-heavy tercile) beside 0.27% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: thin.
What the Injury-mix reading shows for SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS LTD
The standout signal for SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS LTD is Injury-mix: 98.2% Injury-coded (injury-heavy) beside 0.27% Death-coded, on a thin-book footprint.
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 18 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 5,094 (98.2% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 588 reports across 18 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 (18)
Yearly Trend
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