Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation
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
#201 of 1000 · 11,392 reports · 2009–2026
- BOOK 11,392 reports
- RANK #201 of 1000
- DEATH 347 death-typed
- INJ 5,463 injury-typed
- MALF 5,578 malfunction
- SPAN 2009–2026
- PEAK 2024: 2,098
- PHOTO Dermal Cooling Pack/V…
Nearest event-volume peer: Dermal Cooling Pack/Vacuum/Massager (5 report gap)
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation sits #201 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,392 MAUDE reports spanning 2009–2026. 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Catheter carries 48.0% INJURY-coded reports, 17.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 3.0% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.5 pp)
- INJ 48.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+17.7 pp)
- MALF 49.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-15.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC CRYOCATH LP accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Hemodialysis, Implanted
11,428 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation
11,392 reports
- Dermal Coolin…
Dermal Cooling Pack/Vacuum/Massager
11,387 reports
- Compressor
Compressor, Cardiac, External
11,220 reports
- Recorder
Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection)
11,214 reports
- Ventilator
Ventilator, Continuous, Non-Life-Supporting
11,195 reports
What this shows Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation carries 11,392 MAUDE reports, ranked #201 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 (1,432) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,705.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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 (11,392 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (347 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.