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Catheter And Tip, Suction

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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openFDA event book Catheter And Tip, Suction LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#423 of 1000 · 2,683 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,683 reports
  • RANK #423 of 1000
  • DEATH 14 death-typed
  • INJ 302 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,312 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 442
  • PHOTO Forceps

Nearest event-volume peer: Forceps, Biopsy, Non-Electric (5 report gap)

Catheter And Tip, Suction sits #423 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,683 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
  • INJ 11.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-19.2 pp)
  • MALF 86.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Obstruction of Flow is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ETHICON INC. accounts for 67% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 46% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter And Tip, Suction in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter And Tip, Suction carries 2,683 MAUDE reports, ranked #423 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,312 (86.2%)
Injury 302 (11.3%)
Other 36 (1.3%)
19 (0.7%)
Death 14 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,247 (82.2%)
Required Intervention 207 (7.6%)
Other 170 (6.2%)
Hospitalization 30 (1.1%)
R 29 (1.1%)
Life Threatening 14 (0.5%)
Death 13 (0.5%)
L 9 (0.3%)
H 7 (0.3%)
O 4 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Obstruction of Flow 641
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 300
Leak/Splash 240
Suction Problem 219
Break 142
Material Separation 101
Detachment of Device or Device Component 92
Fluid/Blood Leak 67
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 62
Material Integrity Problem 59
Unraveled Material 44
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 41
Disconnection 35
Use of Device Problem 28
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 20
Activation Problem 19
Decrease in Suction 19
Material Deformation 19
No Flow 16
Difficult to Remove 15

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 7
95
1995: 6
96
1996: 2
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 8
99
1999: 15
00
2000: 5
01
2001: 16
02
2002: 6
03
2003: 25
04
2004: 18
05
2005: 9
06
2006: 19
07
2007: 17
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 17
10
2010: 25
11
2011: 17
12
2012: 25
13
2013: 34
14
2014: 42
15
2015: 27
16
2016: 61
17
2017: 181
18
2018: 161
19
2019: 442
20
2020: 187
21
2021: 283
22
2022: 221
23
2023: 197
24
2024: 277
25
2025: 279
26
2026: 32

Related Entities for Catheter And Tip, Suction

Event Locations

1,239 (46.2%)
I 1,116 (41.6%)
HOSPITAL 274 (10.2%)
NO INFORMATION 33 (1.2%)
HOME 5 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.1%)
OTHER 4 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ETHICON INC. vs COOK INC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter And Tip, Suction, 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 (2,683 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (14 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter And Tip, Suction 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 Catheter And Tip, Suction; 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.