What are FDA adverse event reports for Cannula, Catheter?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Cannula, Catheter, there are 651 total reports including 23 death reports and 208 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 Cannula, Catheter?

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.

2025 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Cannula, Catheter

Name: Cannula, Catheter - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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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 Cannula, Catheter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#784 of 1000 · 651 reports · 1992–2025

BOOK 651 reports
RANK #784 of 1000
DEATH 23 death-typed
INJ 208 injury-typed
MALF 392 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2025
PEAK 1997: 80
PHOTO Chair

Nearest event-volume peer: Chair, Examination And Treatment (1 report gap)

Cannula, Catheter sits #784 of 1000 among tracked device types with 651 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2025. 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 3.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)
INJ 32.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+1.5 pp)
MALF 60.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-4.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 24% 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 .

Hearing Aid

653
Chair

652
Cannula (this)

651
Prostate-Spec…

650
Floss, Dental

648
Intracranial…

646

What this shows Cannula, Catheter carries 651 MAUDE reports, ranked #784 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 392 (60.2%)

Injury 208 (32.0%)

Death 23 (3.5%)

Other 21 (3.2%)

7 (1.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

275 (38.5%)

Other 192 (26.9%)

Required Intervention 123 (17.2%)

R 36 (5.0%)

Hospitalization 26 (3.6%)

Death 21 (2.9%)

L 18 (2.5%)

Life Threatening 10 (1.4%)

H 4 (0.6%)

O 3 (0.4%)

Disability 3 (0.4%)

Invalid Data 2 (0.3%)

S 1 (0.1%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 6

1994: 5

1995: 3

1996: 22

1997: 80

1998: 31

1999: 18

2000: 25

2001: 31

2002: 20

2003: 3

2004: 8

2005: 11

2006: 17

2007: 17

2008: 8

2009: 27

2010: 24

2011: 7

2012: 7

2013: 6

2014: 8

2015: 40

2016: 75

2017: 29

2018: 16

2019: 16

2020: 4

2021: 11

2022: 27

2023: 36

2024: 7

2025: 6

Top Manufacturers

B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG 153

COOK, INC. 58

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 46

CORDIS DE MEXICO 17

COOK INC 16

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 387 (59.4%)

183 (28.1%)

I 46 (7.1%)

INVALID DATA 13 (2.0%)

OTHER 10 (1.5%)

NO INFORMATION 8 (1.2%)

HOME 2 (0.3%)

UNKNOWN 2 (0.3%)

Compare B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG vs COOK, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cannula, Catheter, 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 (651 here).

Chair, Examination And Treatment 652 Prostate-Specific Antigen For Management Of… 650 Hearing Aid, Air-Conduction, Prescription 653 Floss, Dental 648

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (23 here), distinct from the volume row.

Electrode, Electrocardiograph 23 Regulator, Pressure, Gas Cylinder 23 Stylet For Catheter, Gastro-Urology 23 Transducer, Ultrasonic, Diagnostic 23

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.

Cannula, Catheter

Event-type mix vs corpus