UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION

Manufacturer adverse-event records for UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION 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 · 1992–2011 · thin-book · typical Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION is a thinner MAUDE footprint

UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION accounts for 3,776 FDA MAUDE reports (#422 of 443, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.40% (typical); Injury share 10.1% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION

The standout signal for UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION is filing volume: 3,776 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#422 of 443, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.40% (typical).

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 3,330 (88.2% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 766 reports across 17 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

3,776
Total Reports
15
Event-type Death
381
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,330 (88.2%)
Injury 381 (10.1%)
26 (0.7%)
Other 24 (0.6%)
Death 15 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,338 (87.5%)
Other 201 (5.3%)
Required Intervention 198 (5.2%)
R 33 (0.9%)
Hospitalization 20 (0.5%)
Death 12 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.1%)
L 2 (0.1%)
O 2 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 16
93
1993: 12
94
1994: 17
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 329
97
1997: 766
98
1998: 672
99
1999: 540
00
2000: 751
01
2001: 429
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 9
04
2004: 14
05
2005: 58
06
2006: 78
07
2007: 81
11
2011: 1