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Cranial Helmet

K013458510(k) TraditionalCleared Oct 29, 200111-day reviewClass II21 CFR 882.5970

Data to Oct 25, 2026 (FDA decisions) Oct 12, 2026 (recalls) Sep 30, 2026 (MAUDE) refreshed weekly, last Nov 3, 2026

Children'S Hospital · MVA Orthosis, Cranial

Cleared on Oct 29, 2001 after an 11-day review. The FDA summary names its predicate without a number.

Decided
Oct 29, 2001
Review
11 days
Class
Class II
Product code
MVA
Recalls
None
Predicates
0

The FDA summary names its predicate without a number.

FIG. 1 — Lineage of K013458Source: FDA 510(k) database · How lineage is built

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What was it cleared against? (1)

Devices the submitter claimed this one is substantially equivalent to (*), and reference devices cited for a specific test or feature (†), as written in the FDA summary.

TypeNumberDeviceApplicantDecidedRecalls
*—Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare - CranioCap™
Named without a submission number
—

What descends from it?

No later submission names this one as a predicate yet.

Has anything in its family been recalled? (0 Class I)

No FDA recall names this device.

No ancestor or descendant has a Class I recall.

How does its category compare?

All MVA devices

MVA Orthosis, Cranial: FDA decisions, review times, recalls and adverse event reports over 20 years.

FDA decisions per year · MVA

1in 2024

2007: 22010: 12011: 32014: 32018: 12021: 22022: 32023: 22024: 1
2007high 3 (2011) · low 0 (2008)2026

2026 to Oct 25, outlined.

Median 510(k) review, days · MVA

209in 2022

2011: 104 days median2014: 114 days median2022: 209 days median
2007high 209 (2022) · low 104 (2011)2026

Receipt to decision; years with fewer than 3 clearances left blank.

Recalls per year · MVA

No recall names MVA since 2007.

Adverse event reports per year · MVA

1in 2022

2008: 12009: 12010: 22015: 12016: 12017: 32022: 1
2007high 3 (2017) · low 0 (2007)2025

MAUDE reports naming product code MVA, not matched to any one device; reports are not rates.

View these four charts as a table
YearDecisionsMedian 510(k) review, daysRecalls (Class I)MAUDE reports
20072—00
20080—01
20090—01
20101—02
2011310400
20120—00
20130—00
2014311400
20150—01
20160—01
20170—03
20181—00
20190—00
20200—00
20212—00
2022320901
20232—00
20241—00
20250—00
20260—0—

What is it indicated for?

The Children’s Hospital cranial helmet is intended to apply passive pressure o prominent regions of an infant’s cranium in order to improve cranial symmetry and/or shape in infants from three to eighteen months of age with moderate to severe non-synostotic positional plagiocephaly, including infants with plagiocephalic-, brachycephalic-, and scaphocephalic-shaped heads.

Indications for use read by OCR from a scanned FDA summary, so letters may be misread. Check the PDF before quoting it.

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510(k) Report. “K013458: Cranial Helmet.” Lineage record from FDA 510(k) data and the FDA summary. Updated Nov 3, 2026. Accessed Nov 4, 2026. https://510kreport.com/device/K013458

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Record history
  • FDA decision record loaded May 2, 2026
  • Summary read Oct 30, 2026 (extraction version 2d9447fa9ea4)
  • Page last updated Nov 3, 2026