2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days

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 MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#94 of 1000 · 35,537 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 35,537 reports
  • RANK #94 of 1000
  • DEATH 125 death-typed
  • INJ 6,012 injury-typed
  • MALF 28,762 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 4,424
  • PHOTO Stretcher, Wheeled

Nearest event-volume peer: Stretcher, Wheeled (686 report gap)

Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days sits #94 of 1000 among tracked device types with 35,537 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 16.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-13.5 pp)
  • MALF 80.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+16.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 accounts for 58% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days carries 35,537 MAUDE reports, ranked #94 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 28,762 (80.9%)
Injury 6,012 (16.9%)
Other 487 (1.4%)
150 (0.4%)
Death 125 (0.4%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

14,120 (39.3%)
Other 13,754 (38.2%)
Required Intervention 6,956 (19.3%)
Hospitalization 348 (1.0%)
R 295 (0.8%)
Death 130 (0.4%)
Disability 120 (0.3%)
O 117 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 59 (0.2%)
L 35 (0.1%)
S 21 (0.1%)
H 9 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 9,927
Break 2,664
Material Deformation 2,290
Fracture 1,349
Leak/Splash 1,219
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,168
Defective Component 1,109
Crack 1,001
Material Frayed 791
Component Incompatible 655
Material Separation 638
Failure to Infuse 532
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 458
Detachment of Device or Device Component 453
Material Puncture/Hole 426
Material Twisted/Bent 385
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 368
Obstruction of Flow 339
Data Problem 313
Difficult to Remove 300

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 1
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 4
97
1997: 29
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 23
00
2000: 25
01
2001: 11
02
2002: 50
03
2003: 66
04
2004: 277
05
2005: 265
06
2006: 477
07
2007: 392
08
2008: 369
09
2009: 379
10
2010: 494
11
2011: 696
12
2012: 564
13
2013: 680
14
2014: 842
15
2015: 1,306
16
2016: 1,123
17
2017: 2,100
18
2018: 2,324
19
2019: 2,052
20
2020: 2,539
21
2021: 3,084
22
2022: 3,256
23
2023: 2,799
24
2024: 4,243
25
2025: 4,424
26
2026: 625

Related Entities for Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Long-Term Greater Than 30 Days

Event Locations

18,709 (52.6%)
HOSPITAL 9,616 (27.1%)
I 6,466 (18.2%)
NO INFORMATION 375 (1.1%)
HOME 158 (0.4%)
OTHER 76 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 58 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 27 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 18 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 11 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 5 (0.0%)
CHEMOTHERAPY CENTER 3 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
HOSPICE 2 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 1 (0.0%)
EMERGENCY ROOM 1 (0.0%)
EXAMINATION ROOM 1 (0.0%)
REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.0%)
TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC 1 (0.0%)

Compare C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 vs BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS →

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 (35,537 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (125 here), distinct from the volume row.

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.