What are FDA adverse event reports for Anesthesia Conduction Kit?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Anesthesia Conduction Kit, there are 5,092 total reports including 5 death reports and 1,333 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Anesthesia Conduction Kit?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Anesthesia Conduction Kit

Name: Anesthesia Conduction Kit - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
Creator: PlainHospital
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Anesthesia Conduction Kit LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#307 of 1000 · 5,092 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 5,092 reports
RANK #307 of 1000
DEATH 5 death-typed
INJ 1,333 injury-typed
MALF 3,515 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2019: 472
PHOTO Light

Nearest event-volume peer: Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted (0 report gap)

Anesthesia Conduction Kit sits #307 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,092 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
INJ 26.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-4.3 pp)
MALF 69.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+4.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 41% of location-tagged rows .

Folders And I…

5,129
Compressor

5,114
Anesthesia Co… (this)

5,092
Light

5,092
Dilator

5,077
Expander

5,056

What this shows Anesthesia Conduction Kit carries 5,092 MAUDE reports, ranked #307 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 3,515 (69.0%)

Injury 1,333 (26.2%)

Other 199 (3.9%)

40 (0.8%)

Death 5 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

3,042 (58.4%)

Other 1,024 (19.6%)

Required Intervention 906 (17.4%)

R 92 (1.8%)

Hospitalization 85 (1.6%)

O 17 (0.3%)

Disability 14 (0.3%)

S 12 (0.2%)

Life Threatening 8 (0.2%)

Death 6 (0.1%)

Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.1%)

H 2 (0.0%)

L 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 1

1993: 1

1994: 15

1995: 10

1996: 34

1997: 77

1998: 82

1999: 66

2000: 87

2001: 88

2002: 70

2003: 51

2004: 51

2005: 64

2006: 99

2007: 81

2008: 80

2009: 134

2010: 139

2011: 187

2012: 187

2013: 276

2014: 251

2015: 235

2016: 372

2017: 353

2018: 448

2019: 472

2020: 274

2021: 165

2022: 270

2023: 60

2024: 165

2025: 138

2026: 9

Top Manufacturers

ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. 928

SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 672

ARROW INTL., INC. 412

B. BRAUN MEDICAL, INC. 275

ARROW INTERNATIONAL, INC. 170

B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC. 159

CAREFUSION, INC 142

BECTON DICKINSON 116

Event Locations

2,063 (40.5%)

I 1,943 (38.2%)

HOSPITAL 873 (17.1%)

NO INFORMATION 128 (2.5%)

INVALID DATA 32 (0.6%)

OTHER 22 (0.4%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 10 (0.2%)

HOME 6 (0.1%)

UNKNOWN 6 (0.1%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 5 (0.1%)

NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

Compare ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. vs SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Anesthesia Conduction Kit, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (5,092 here).

Light, Surgical, Ceiling Mounted 5,092 Dilator, Esophageal 5,077 Compressor, Air, Portable 5,114 Expander, Surgical, Skin Graft 5,056

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5 Calculator/Data Processing Module 5

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Anesthesia Conduction Kit are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Anesthesia Conduction Kit; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit

Event-type mix vs corpus