Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter
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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#284 of 1000 · 5,832 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 5,832 reports
- RANK #284 of 1000
- DEATH 212 death-typed
- INJ 2,759 injury-typed
- MALF 2,834 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2011: 486
- PHOTO Mesh
Nearest event-volume peer: Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling (6 report gap)
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter sits #284 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,832 MAUDE reports spanning 2006–2026. 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 3.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.1 pp)
- INJ 47.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+16.9 pp)
- MALF 48.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-15.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 42% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 35% 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
- Dislodger
Dislodger, Stone, Basket, Ureteral, Metal
5,930 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter
5,832 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Stress Urinary Incontinence, Female, Mini-Sling
5,826 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Vitreous Aspiration And Cutting, Ac-Powered
5,802 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Cannula And Tubing, Vascular, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
5,758 reports
- Holder
Holder, Head, Neurosurgical (Skull Clamp)
5,752 reports
What this shows Catheter, Percutaneous, Cardiac Ablation, For Treatment Of Atrial Flutter carries 5,832 MAUDE reports, ranked #284 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 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs BIOSENSE WEBSTER INC →
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 (5,832 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (212 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.