Cannula, Catheter
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 §870.1300 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Cannula, Catheter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#800 of 1000 · 654 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 654 reports
- RANK #800 of 1000
- DEATH 23 death-typed
- INJ 208 injury-typed
- MALF 395 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 1997: 80
- PHOTO Instrument For Treatm…
Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument For Treatment Of Hyperhidrosis (1 report gap)
Cannula, Catheter sits #800 of 1000 among tracked device types with 654 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 sit below the device-type norm
Cannula, Catheter carries 60.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 4.4pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 3.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)
- INJ 31.8% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+1.5 pp)
- MALF 60.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-4.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 59% of location-tagged rows .
Cannula, Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Guide
Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature
657 reports
- Instruments
Instruments, Dental Hand
656 reports
- Instrument Fo…
Instrument For Treatment Of Hyperhidrosis
655 reports
- Cannula (this)
Cannula, Catheter
654 reports
- Prostate-Spec…
Prostate-Specific Antigen (Psa) For Management Of Prostate Cancers
653 reports
- Chair
Chair, Examination And Treatment
652 reports
What this shows Cannula, Catheter carries 654 MAUDE reports, ranked #800 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports fell to 6 in 2025, down from an average of 22 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Cannula, Catheter
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cannula, Catheter: 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 (654 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (23 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cannula, Catheter 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 Cannula, Catheter; 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.