MTS Spinal Surgery Top 5943Recalls & reported problems

Summary

The FDA's MAUDE database contains 8 adverse event reports that list this exact device (DI 00842430105982), received between Oct 15, 2020 and Mar 5, 2025 — classified as 4 injuries, 4 malfunctions.

The most frequently reported specific device problem is “Detachment of Device or Device Component” (2 reports).

Reports come from manufacturers, hospitals and patients and are not verified by the FDA. A report does not prove the device caused the event, and counts can't be used to compare devices or estimate failure rates. What reports can and can't tell you · How this data works · Data updated Oct 16, 2026.

Most reported problems

Recent adverse event reports

The 8 most recent of 8 reports, in the reporter's own words as published by the FDA.

• MalfunctionMar 5, 2025Material Separation; Detachment of Device or Device Component; Material Separation; Detachment of Device or Device Component

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING SURGERY THE SPINE TABLETOP ATTACHED TO THE TABLE BASE CAME LOOSE AND APPEARED TO BE SEPARATED FROM THE MOUNT AT TWO DIFFERENT POINTS RESULTING IN A STRUCTURAL FAILURE. THE TABLETOP ALSO SHOWED SIGNIFICANT SIGNS OF WEAR, INCLUDING RUST AND A BUILDUP OF RESIDUE. THERE WASN'T ANY VISUAL DAMAGE TO THE CARBON FIBER. THE PATIENT IS OKAY AT THIS TIME.

  Patient problems: Bone Fracture(s); No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions

  MAUDE report 21532247 ↗
• MalfunctionJul 23, 2024Detachment of Device or Device Component; Detachment of Device or Device Component

  WHILE POSITIONING A 450LB PATIENT, THE SPINAL TOP OF THE MTS TABLE BROKE AND PATIENT WAS DROPPED TO THE FLOOR. HOSPITAL THEN TOOK THE PATIENT TO GET A CAT SCAN AND EVERYTHING CAME BACK NEGATIVE.

  Patient problems: Fall; No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions

  MAUDE report 19809353 ↗
• InjuryOct 11, 2022Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  LITERATURE CITATION: OYDANICH, M., NAFTALOVICH, R., & ISKANDER, A. (2022). RESPIRATORY DECOMPENSATION WITH PRONING - WHEN PRONE POSITIONING CAN WORSEN RESPIRATORY MECHANICS. ANAESTHESIOLOGY INTENSIVE THERAPY, 54(2), 187-189. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.5114/AIT.2022.113730. WE PRESENT A CASE OF A 48-YEAR-OLD MAN (WEIGHT: 90.2 KG, HEIGHT: 180 CM) WITH NO SIGNIFICANT PAST MEDICAL HISTORY, WHO SUSTAINED SEVERE TRAUMA AS A PASSENGER FOLLOWING VEHICULAR IMPACT AT HIGHWAY SPEED. THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED SEVERAL THORACIC INJURIES, INCLUDING BILATERAL RIB FRACTURES, TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX, PULMONARY CONTUSIONS, HAEMOTHORAX, LUNG LACERATIONS, AND AIR LEAK. SUCH INJURIES CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DEFORMITY OF THE PULMONARY STRUCTURE AND VASCULATURE. THE TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX AND SUBSEQUENT HAEMOTHORAX WERE TREATED WITH TWO CHEST TUBES BUT THE SUSTAINED LUNG TISSUE INJURY LED TO SIGNIFICANT PLEURAL EFFUSION AND ATELECTASIS, WHICH WORSENED THE PATIENT'S RESPIRATORY STATUS. ADDITIONALLY, THE PATIENT SUSTAINED ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL AND ATLANTO-AXIAL DISLOCATION REQUIRING SURGICAL FUSION OF C2, WHICH IS THE SETTING OF THIS REPORT. THE PATIENT PRESENTED FOR THE C2 FUSION SURGERY INTUBATED AND MECHANICALLY VENTILATED. THE

  Patient problems: Low Oxygen Saturation

  MAUDE report 15580435 ↗
• MalfunctionSep 6, 2022Loss of or Failure to Bond; Crack; Loss of or Failure to Bond; Crack

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING SURGERY THE CARBON FROM THE METAL END OF THE TABLE TOP CAME APART CAUSING THE PATIENT TO FALL. ONE OF THE DOCTORS CAUGHT THE PATIENT'S HEAD AND THERE WERE CURRENTLY NO KNOWN INJURIES OBSERVED. THERE WERE NO TREATMENTS OR EXTENDED STAY NEEDED FOR THE PATIENT. POINT OF CONTRACT STATED THERE WAS A 1' CRACK ON THE CARBON, AND THEY REMOVED IT FROM SERVICE.

  Patient problems: Fall

  MAUDE report 15364355 ↗
• InjuryNov 9, 2021Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  FROM JARDALY, A. ET AL. LEG COMPARTMENT SYNDROME COMPLICATING POSTERIOR SPINAL FUSION FOR ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS: A CASE REPORT. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS, 2021, 22: E927082. HTTPS://WWW.AMJCASEREP.COM/ABSTRACT/INDEX/IDART/927082. PATIENT WITH 59-DEGREE LEFT THORACIC ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS UNDERWENT POSTERIOR SPINAL INSTRUMENTATION AND FUSION. THE PATIENT WAS PLACED PRONE ON A JACKSON TABLE FRAME. ALL PRESSURE POINTS WERE PADDED AND PILLOWS WERE PLACED UNDER BOTH OF HIS LEGS. THE SURGERY LASTED 6 HOURS. ON POSTOPERATIVE DAY 1, THE PATIENT COMPLAINED OF MILD NON-TRAUMATIC LEFT LEG PAIN, WHICH BECAME SEVERE BY DAY 2. A 4-COMPARTMENT FASCIOTOMY OF THE LEG WAS IMMEDIATELY PERFORMED. INTRAOPERATIVELY, THE COMPARTMENTS WERE FOUND TO BE BULGING AND A HEMATOMA WAS NOTED. A WOUND VAC WAS PLACED FOR DRAINAGE. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT IRRIGATION AND DEBRIDEMENT OF NONVIABLE TISSUE (PORTIONS OF THE ANTERIOR TIBIALIS, EXTENSOR HALLUCIS LONGUS, AND EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS) WITH DELAYED PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE. ON FOLLOW-UP, THE PATIENT HAS REGAINED FULL ANKLE RANGE OF MOTION AND HAS 5/5 DORSIFLEXION AND PLANTAR FLEXION. HE HAS A WEAK EHL (1/5) BUT HAS BEEN ABLE TO FULLY PAR

  Patient problems: Muscle/Tendon Damage

  MAUDE report 12784025 ↗
• InjuryApr 1, 2021Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient Device Interaction Problem; Patient-Device Incompatibility; Patient Device Interaction Problem

  IT WAS REPORTED THAT TWO POSITIONING-RELATED PROBLEMS REPORTED IN AN OBESE PATIENT UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR SPINAL FRACTURE ON AN OPEN FRAME TABLETOP. SIGNIFICANT BRUISING ACROSS ILIAC CREST AND GROIN NOTED POSTOPERATIVELY, ATTRIBUTED TO PRESSURE FROM THE HIP/THIGH PADS. THAT PRESSURE IS ALSO SUSPECTED AS THE CAUSE OF A SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF LOWER EXTREMITY NERVE CONDUCTION SIGNALS DURING THE PROCEDURE. THE WEIGHT OF THE SAGGING PANNUS DESTABILIZED THE FRACTURE. THE SURGICAL TEAM WAS ALERTED TO THE PROBLEM VIA NEUROMONITORING AND WAS ABLE TO REPAIR THE INJURY. THE SURGEONS SUGGEST THAT BARIATRIC SECURITY STRAPS MIGHT HAVE RELIEVED SOME OF THE EXCESS GRAVITATIONAL FORCE EXTENDING THE SPINE. FROM NICHOLAS A. STRELTZOV, LINTON T. EVANS, M. DUSTIN BOONE, BRANDON K. ROOT, DANIEL R. CALNAN, ERIK J. KOBYLARZ, YINCHEN SONG, INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF T9-T10 FRACTURE IN A PATIENT WITH MORBID OBESITY AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS: A CASE REPORT WITH LITERATURE REVIEW, CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY PRACTICE, 2021, ISSN 2467-981X, HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1016/J.CNP.2021.02.004 (HTTPS://WWW.SCIENCEDIRECT.COM/SCIENCE/ARTICLE/PII/S2467981X2100010X).

  Patient problems: Bruise/Contusion; Stenosis

  MAUDE report 11602465 ↗
• MalfunctionFeb 23, 2021Unintended Movement; Unintended Movement

  IT WAS REPORTED A PATIENT FALL DURING A CASE DUE TO THE ANESTHESIOLOGISTS SETTING HIS HAND ON THE TOP OF THE MTS AND PRESSING THE BLUE TILT LOCK BUTTON. HE SAID THE BLUE KNOB ON THE SIDE WASN'T TIGHTENED AND THE ANESTHESIOLOGISTS RESTED HIS HAND ON THE TOP OF THE COLUMN HITTING THE BLUE BUTTON AND THE PATIENT FELL OFF WHEN THE TOP TILTED.

  Patient problems: Fall

  MAUDE report 11366186 ↗
• InjuryOct 15, 2020Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem; Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem

  PER VOLUNTARY MEDWATCH # MW5090314: "I HAD A SPINAL FUSION AT L4-L5. THE RESTRAINT STRAPS ON THE JACKSON TABLE HAVE LEFT BOTH MY LEGS ON THE FRONT ONLY COMPLETELY NUMB FROM 5 INCHES ABOVE MY KNEES TO 5 INCHES BELOW MY KNEES. THE STRAPS PERMANENTLY CUT OFF THE CIRCULATION, NEARLY 5 YEARS AGO AND NO IMPROVEMENT. ALSO DURING SAME SURGERY THE NEURO-MONITORING FAILED TO SHOW ANY SIGNS OF NERVE DAMAGE, HOWEVER I WOKE UP PARALYZED. IT TOOK 4 MONTHS TO LEARN TO WALK AGAIN. STILL VERY WEAK LEGS. THIS TEST CONFIRMED NERVE DAMAGE WHERE I HAVE NUMBNESS AND WEAKNESS."

  Patient problems: Ambulation or Postural Difficulties; Muscle Weakness/Atrophy; Numbness; Paralysis

  MAUDE report 10686104 ↗