2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Cardiac Catheterization Kit

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

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FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §870.1200 (Cardiovascular panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Cardiac Catheterization Kit LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#907 of 1000 · 481 reports · 2012–2026

  • BOOK 481 reports
  • RANK #907 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 50 injury-typed
  • MALF 425 malfunction
  • SPAN 2012–2026
  • PEAK 2026: 122
  • PHOTO Rongeur, Manual

Nearest event-volume peer: Rongeur, Manual (1 report gap)

Cardiac Catheterization Kit sits #907 of 1000 among tracked device types with 481 MAUDE reports spanning 2012–2026. 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

Cardiac Catheterization Kit carries 88.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 23.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
  • INJ 10.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.9 pp)
  • MALF 88.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+23.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Connection Problem is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 74% of location-tagged rows .

Cardiac Catheterization Kit in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Cardiac Catheterization Kit carries 481 MAUDE reports, ranked #907 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 425 (88.4%)
Injury 50 (10.4%)
3 (0.6%)
Death 2 (0.4%)
Other 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

233 (48.8%)
Other 196 (41.1%)
Required Intervention 39 (8.2%)
R 3 (0.6%)
Death 3 (0.6%)
O 1 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 1 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Connection Problem 61
Break 40
Crack 40
Material Integrity Problem 36
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 24
Fluid/Blood Leak 22
Loose or Intermittent Connection 22
Air/Gas in Device 20
Material Disintegration 19
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 16
Leak/Splash 15
Material Separation 15
Detachment of Device or Device Component 11
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 10
Material Deformation 10
Material Frayed 10
Unraveled Material 10
Material Fragmentation 9
Obstruction of Flow 9
Contamination 8

Yearly Trend

12
2012: 1
13
2013: 3
14
2014: 3
15
2015: 3
16
2016: 4
17
2017: 3
18
2018: 12
19
2019: 13
20
2020: 35
21
2021: 21
22
2022: 13
23
2023: 18
24
2024: 113
25
2025: 117
26
2026: 122

Reports rose to 117 in 2025, up from an average of 66 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Cardiac Catheterization Kit

Event Locations

356 (74.0%)
I 63 (13.1%)
HOSPITAL 41 (8.5%)
NO INFORMATION 20 (4.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP vs MEDLINE INDUSTRIES LP →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Cardiac Catheterization 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 (481 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Cardiac Catheterization 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 Cardiac Catheterization 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.