Search the FDA MAUDE database
All 25,039,198 medical device adverse event reports from the FDA's MAUDE database — searchable by device name, manufacturer, or product code, cross-linked with 510(k)s, recalls, and classifications.
What is MAUDE?
MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) is the FDA's public database of medical device adverse event reports: deaths, injuries, and malfunctions reported by manufacturers, importers, user facilities, and voluntary reporters. It is one of the largest public sources of device safety data anywhere — and a required stop for anyone doing post-market surveillance, PSUR database searches, or state-of-the-art analysis.
The FDA's own MAUDE search interface caps results, paginates slowly, and offers no trending. BEUDAMED indexes the complete openFDA MAUDE dataset — every report, with the coded device and patient problems — and links each report to the device's product code, classification, and related records.
Three ways to use it
Look up a device
Search by brand name, generic name, or manufacturer to read individual event reports, including event type and coded problems.
Search MAUDE →Trend a product code
Monthly event counts, deaths/injuries/malfunctions split, and top coded problems for any FDA product code — the PSUR-ready view.
Generate a PSUR report →Query it programmatically
The same data via REST API and MCP — ask Claude or any MCP client for adverse event trends directly.
API documentation →Reading MAUDE data honestly
MAUDE is reporting data, not incidence data: report counts reflect reporting behavior as much as device safety, submissions can be duplicated or incomplete, and the FDA itself cautions against using MAUDE alone to compare devices. That's why our PSUR reports state their search protocol, label name-based matching as indicative, and disclose excluded records — so your PSUR appendix survives an auditor's questions.