# K072438: Medical Maggots, Creature Comforts

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Monarch Labs, LLC
- Decided: Oct 5, 2007 after 36 days
- Product code: NQK (Maggots, Medical)
- Device class: U
- Recalls of this device: 1 (0 Class I)
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 1 generation back to K033391 (2004). 1 ancestor in all.
1 later device descends from it; 1 cites it directly.
0 of 3 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K033391: Medical Maggots, Ronald A. Sherman (2004) Summary page 1.

## Most influential descendants
- K102827: Medical Maggots, Lesoc (2011), 0 descendants of its own

## Recalls of this device
- May 3, 2009 · Not classified · Z-2207-2010: Monarch Labs initiated the field notification regarding their Medical Maggots from Batch MM090406 with the accessory LeFlap dressing due a customer complaint from a physician of a patient developing c

## Indications for use
Medical Maggots are indicated for debriding non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds, including pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, neuropathic foot ulcers, and non-healing traumatic or post surgical-wounds. The accessory maggot confinement dressings, Creature Comforts and Creature Comforts II, are indicated for confining the medicinal maggots on the area of treatment during debridement therapy for the conditions mentioned above.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K072438
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology