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Catheter, Nephrostomy

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, Nephrostomy LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#721 of 1000 · 790 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 790 reports
  • RANK #721 of 1000
  • DEATH 8 death-typed
  • INJ 257 injury-typed
  • MALF 516 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 131
  • PHOTO Electrode

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrode, Electrosurgical (0 report gap)

Catheter, Nephrostomy sits #721 of 1000 among tracked device types with 790 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 1.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.5 pp)
  • INJ 32.5% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+2.1 pp)
  • MALF 65.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+0.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Burst Container or Vessel is 16% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter, Nephrostomy in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Nephrostomy carries 790 MAUDE reports, ranked #721 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 516 (65.3%)
Injury 257 (32.5%)
Death 8 (1.0%)
Other 6 (0.8%)
3 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

454 (53.9%)
Required Intervention 184 (21.9%)
Other 104 (12.4%)
Hospitalization 38 (4.5%)
R 29 (3.4%)
H 15 (1.8%)
Death 7 (0.8%)
O 4 (0.5%)
S 2 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.2%)
D 1 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Burst Container or Vessel 90
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 66
Material Rupture 59
Fluid/Blood Leak 50
Break 44
Leak/Splash 34
Difficult to Remove 26
Material Separation 24
Fracture 22
Detachment of Device or Device Component 20
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 19
Difficult to Advance 17
Inflation Problem 17
Material Deformation 17
Material Split, Cut or Torn 14
Material Puncture/Hole 13
Physical Resistance/Sticking 13
Material Fragmentation 11
Nonstandard Device 11
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 9

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 1
95
1995: 7
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 18
98
1998: 12
99
1999: 11
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 5
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 5
08
2008: 8
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 6
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 16
13
2013: 15
14
2014: 4
15
2015: 9
16
2016: 26
17
2017: 60
18
2018: 69
19
2019: 78
20
2020: 50
21
2021: 38
22
2022: 42
23
2023: 131
24
2024: 47
25
2025: 61
26
2026: 12

Related Entities for Catheter, Nephrostomy

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 200
COOK INC 160
C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 86
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - GALWAY 75
COLOPLAST A/S 67
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) 19
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 18
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP. 11

Event Locations

369 (46.7%)
I 295 (37.3%)
HOSPITAL 107 (13.5%)
NO INFORMATION 9 (1.1%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.3%)
HOME 1 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.1%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs COOK INC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Nephrostomy, 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 (790 here).

Electrode, Electrosurgical 790 Electrocardiograph 788 Device, Fixation, Tracheal Tube 787 Mesh 787

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (8 here), distinct from the volume row.

Agent 8 Bronchoscope Accessory 8 Catheter, Balloon, Transcervical 8 Container 8

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Nephrostomy 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, Nephrostomy; 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.