STRYKER MEDICAL

Manufacturer adverse-event records for STRYKER MEDICAL 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 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-light

Injury-mix signature

STRYKER MEDICAL is lighter on Injury codes

Injury-coded event_type share is 1.2% (injury-light tercile) beside 0.09% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: heavy.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for STRYKER MEDICAL

The standout signal for STRYKER MEDICAL is Injury-mix: 1.2% Injury-coded (injury-light) beside 0.09% Death-coded, on a heavy-book footprint.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair STRYKER MEDICAL 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 25,684 (97.6% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 12,767 reports across 33 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

26,306
Total Reports
24
Event-type Death
320
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 25,684 (97.6%)
Injury 320 (1.2%)
Other 189 (0.7%)
89 (0.3%)
Death 24 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

26,031 (98.9%)
Other 197 (0.7%)
Required Intervention 32 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 20 (0.1%)
Death 17 (0.1%)
O 10 (0.0%)
R 5 (0.0%)
Disability 5 (0.0%)
H 3 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 2
96
1996: 2
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 2
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 4
01
2001: 7
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 8
04
2004: 9
05
2005: 17
06
2006: 11
07
2007: 13
08
2008: 16
09
2009: 25
10
2010: 19
11
2011: 12,767
12
2012: 12,278
13
2013: 582
14
2014: 15
15
2015: 17
16
2016: 5
17
2017: 10
18
2018: 14
19
2019: 12
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 7
22
2022: 3
23
2023: 4
24
2024: 408
25
2025: 31
26
2026: 2