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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
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
- Vehicle
Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled
2,699 reports
- Drills
Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Compound, Powered)
2,698 reports
- Forceps
Forceps, Biopsy, Non-Electric
2,688 reports
- Catheter And… (this)
Catheter And Tip, Suction
2,683 reports
- Nebulizer
Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)
2,671 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Penile
2,664 reports
What this shows Catheter And Tip, Suction carries 2,683 MAUDE reports, ranked #423 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
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Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Catheter And Tip, Suction
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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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.