Merit Medical
Performance by category
Death-per-report rate within each category, compared to the corpus-wide average for that same category. Ratio > 1 means this manufacturer's mortality is higher than the field for that category; ratio < 1 means lower.
| Category | Devices | Reports | Deaths | Death rate | Corpus avg | vs corpus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neurovascular | 52 | 2,598 | 162 | 6.24% | 2.52% | 2.47× |
Temporal trajectory
Annual reports for this manufacturer's neurosurgical devices, split by FDA event type. Use it to spot inflection points (recall responses, product launches, reporting-pattern shifts).
Failure-mode signature
Per category, this manufacturer's failure-mode mix vs other manufacturers in the SAME category — an apples-to-apples comparison that strips out the confound of "which categories they happen to operate in." Click a category tab to drill in.
Highest-mortality devices
Top 10 of this manufacturer's devices ranked by death-per-report rate (minimum 100 reports to avoid small-sample noise). Click any device for its full profile.
| Device | Category | Reports | Deaths | Death rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merit Medical Spectranetics Tightrail Rotating Dilator Sheath | Neurovascular | 169 | 35 | 20.71% |
| Merit Medical Lead Extraction Evolution RL Controlled-Rotation Dilator Sheath Set | Neurovascular | 117 | 24 | 20.51% |
| Merit Medical Versacross Connect Laac Access Solution | Neurovascular | 380 | 22 | 5.79% |
| Merit Medical Ancure Expandable Sheath | Neurovascular | 110 | 3 | 2.73% |
| Merit Medical Versacross Connect Access Solution For Faradrive | Neurovascular | 175 | 3 | 1.71% |
| Merit Medical SI Avanti Plus | Neurovascular | 240 | 2 | 0.83% |
| Merit Medical Merit Custom | Neurovascular | 236 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Merit Medical Avanti | Neurovascular | 101 | 0 | 0.00% |