A review of hospital based ventilator malfunctions reported to the FDA in 2021

Ventilator care is synonymous with Intensive care. These devices are electromechanical and as such can fail. Most failures without patient incident, injury, harm. The FDA requires manufacturers who learn of malfunction, injury or death while operating their product to report the agency via Manufacturer User Facility Device Experience database. I reviewed 500 recent events reported found an increasing trend from 2020 2021 in hospital ventilator malfunction reports. Examination these reports critical assuring quality author concluded that intensive training on device characteristics feature a more rigorous examination performance between patients may assist reducing malfunctions. Keywords: Mechanical ventilation,