2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic

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, Conduction, Anesthetic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#437 of 1000 · 2,498 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,498 reports
  • RANK #437 of 1000
  • DEATH 9 death-typed
  • INJ 476 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,826 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 779
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Measurement, Blood-Pressure, Non-Invasive (5 report gap)

Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic sits #437 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,498 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 →

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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 19.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-11.4 pp)
  • MALF 73.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+8.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 51% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic carries 2,498 MAUDE reports, ranked #437 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,826 (73.1%)
Injury 476 (19.1%)
Other 176 (7.0%)
11 (0.4%)
Death 9 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,733 (67.8%)
Other 445 (17.4%)
Required Intervention 249 (9.7%)
Hospitalization 52 (2.0%)
R 44 (1.7%)
Death 10 (0.4%)
O 7 (0.3%)
H 5 (0.2%)
Disability 5 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 839
Obstruction of Flow 95
Material Twisted/Bent 92
Fluid/Blood Leak 91
Detachment of Device or Device Component 75
Difficult to Advance 70
Material Separation 69
No Flow 50
Physical Resistance/Sticking 34
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 31
Device Handling Problem 28
Failure to Advance 27
Difficult to Remove 25
Material Fragmentation 24
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 22
Material Split, Cut or Torn 21
Leak/Splash 19
Fracture 18
Disconnection 16
Device Damaged by Another Device 15

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 17
95
1995: 12
96
1996: 26
97
1997: 33
98
1998: 31
99
1999: 31
00
2000: 16
01
2001: 32
02
2002: 26
03
2003: 19
04
2004: 24
05
2005: 22
06
2006: 51
07
2007: 18
08
2008: 14
09
2009: 71
10
2010: 57
11
2011: 31
12
2012: 52
13
2013: 73
14
2014: 45
15
2015: 43
16
2016: 71
17
2017: 38
18
2018: 80
19
2019: 779
20
2020: 159
21
2021: 146
22
2022: 135
23
2023: 79
24
2024: 98
25
2025: 140
26
2026: 27

Related Entities for Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic

Event Locations

I 1,197 (47.9%)
918 (36.7%)
HOSPITAL 265 (10.6%)
UNKNOWN 38 (1.5%)
NO INFORMATION 27 (1.1%)
INVALID DATA 19 (0.8%)
OTHER 14 (0.6%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 8 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 6 (0.2%)
HOME 5 (0.2%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. vs ARROW INTERNATIONAL LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic, 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 (2,498 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (9 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Conduction, Anesthetic 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, Conduction, Anesthetic; 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.