Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.5200 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheter MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#72 of 1000 · 48,999 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 48,999 reports
- RANK #72 of 1000
- DEATH 141 death-typed
- INJ 6,441 injury-typed
- MALF 40,892 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 5,188
- PHOTO Tubes
Nearest event-volume peer: Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection (343 report gap)
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days sits #72 of 1000 among tracked device types with 48,999 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Catheter carries 83.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 18.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 13.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-17.1 pp)
- MALF 83.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+18.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON INFUSION THERAPY SYSTEMS INC. accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Instrument
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Ac-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
50,267 reports
- Interventiona…
Interventional Fluoroscopic X-Ray System
49,982 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days
48,999 reports
- Tubes
Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection
48,656 reports
- Gas-Machine
Gas-Machine, Anesthesia
47,945 reports
- Sv70 Ventilat…
Sv70 Ventilator
47,855 reports
What this shows Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days carries 48,999 MAUDE reports, ranked #72 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
Reports in 2025 (5,188) held close to the prior two-year average of 4,602.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BECTON DICKINSON INFUSION THERAPY SYSTEMS INC. vs BECTON DICKINSON →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (48,999 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (141 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.