Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording
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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#229 of 1000 · 8,601 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 8,601 reports
- RANK #229 of 1000
- DEATH 300 death-typed
- INJ 4,070 injury-typed
- MALF 4,179 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2018: 723
- PHOTO Catheter
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Continuous Flush (58 report gap)
Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording sits #229 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,601 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 3.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)
- INJ 47.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+16.9 pp)
- MALF 48.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-15.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 42% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BIOSENSE WEBSTER INC accounts for 17% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Motor
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic
8,734 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording
8,601 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Continuous Flush
8,543 reports
- Lens
Lens, Guide, Intraocular
8,539 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Thrombus Retriever
8,409 reports
- Dialyzer
Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber
8,369 reports
What this shows Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording carries 8,601 MAUDE reports, ranked #229 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Catheter, Electrode Recording, Or Probe, Electrode Recording
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BIOSENSE WEBSTER INC vs MEDTRONIC MEXICO S. DE R.L. DE CV →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for 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 (8,601 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (300 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for 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 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.