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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheter MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#71 of 1000 · 47,084 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 47,084 reports
- RANK #71 of 1000
- DEATH 138 death-typed
- INJ 6,285 injury-typed
- MALF 39,136 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 5,188
- PHOTO Tubes
Nearest event-volume peer: Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection (862 report gap)
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days sits #71 of 1000 among tracked device types with 47,084 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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- INJ 13.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-17.1 pp)
- MALF 83.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+18.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 28% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON INFUSION THERAPY SYSTEMS INC. accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% 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
49,230 reports
- Interventiona…
Interventional Fluoroscopic X-Ray System
47,993 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days
47,084 reports
- Tubes
Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection
46,222 reports
- Ventilator
Ventilator, Continuous, Minimal Ventilatory Support, Facility Use
45,754 reports
- Gas-Machine
Gas-Machine, Anesthesia
44,393 reports
What this shows Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days carries 47,084 MAUDE reports, ranked #71 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
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BECTON DICKINSON INFUSION THERAPY SYSTEMS INC. vs BECTON DICKINSON →
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 (47,084 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (138 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.