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Anesthesia Conduction Kit

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

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §868.5140 (Anesthesiology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Anesthesia Conduction Kit LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#313 of 1000 · 5,152 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 5,152 reports
  • RANK #313 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 1,352 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,556 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 472
  • PHOTO Tissue Expander And A…

Nearest event-volume peer: Tissue Expander And Accessories (4 report gap)

Anesthesia Conduction Kit sits #313 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,152 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Anesthesia Conduction Kit carries 69.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 4.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 26.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-4.1 pp)
  • MALF 69.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+4.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 41% of location-tagged rows .

Anesthesia Conduction Kit in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Anesthesia Conduction Kit carries 5,152 MAUDE reports, ranked #313 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 3,556 (69.0%)
Injury 1,352 (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.

3,082 (58.3%)
Other 1,036 (19.6%)
Required Intervention 913 (17.3%)
R 97 (1.8%)
Hospitalization 86 (1.6%)
O 22 (0.4%)
Disability 14 (0.3%)
S 12 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.2%)
Death 6 (0.1%)
H 5 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 996
Difficult to Remove 421
Device, or device fragments remain in patient 388
Fluid/Blood Leak 379
Material Separation 361
Leak/Splash 228
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 184
Tip breakage 183
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 177
Physical Resistance 167
Detachment Of Device Component 166
Defective Device 151
Material Fragmentation 130
Detachment of Device or Device Component 118
Difficult to Insert 114
Bent 111
Fracture 94
Difficult to Advance 85
Patient-Device Incompatibility 75
Disconnection 71

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 15
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 34
97
1997: 77
98
1998: 82
99
1999: 66
00
2000: 87
01
2001: 88
02
2002: 70
03
2003: 51
04
2004: 51
05
2005: 64
06
2006: 99
07
2007: 81
08
2008: 80
09
2009: 134
10
2010: 139
11
2011: 187
12
2012: 187
13
2013: 276
14
2014: 251
15
2015: 235
16
2016: 372
17
2017: 353
18
2018: 448
19
2019: 472
20
2020: 274
21
2021: 165
22
2022: 270
23
2023: 60
24
2024: 165
25
2025: 138
26
2026: 69

Reports in 2025 (138) held close to the prior two-year average of 113.

Related Entities for Anesthesia Conduction Kit

Event Locations

2,121 (41.2%)
I 1,943 (37.7%)
HOSPITAL 875 (17.0%)
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 a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Anesthesia Conduction Kit: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (5,152 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

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.