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Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed

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, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#928 of 1000 · 426 reports · 2004–2026

  • BOOK 426 reports
  • RANK #928 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 65 injury-typed
  • MALF 359 malfunction
  • SPAN 2004–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 66
  • PHOTO Resectoscope

Nearest event-volume peer: Resectoscope, Working Element (0 report gap)

Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed sits #928 of 1000 among tracked device types with 426 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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 → · 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 15.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.2 pp)
  • MALF 84.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Use of Device Problem is 24% of coded problems · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed carries 426 MAUDE reports, ranked #928 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 359 (84.3%)
Injury 65 (15.3%)
1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

367 (79.3%)
Required Intervention 23 (5.0%)
R 20 (4.3%)
Other 13 (2.8%)
Hospitalization 12 (2.6%)
L 11 (2.4%)
Life Threatening 10 (2.2%)
H 4 (0.9%)
O 1 (0.2%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Use of Device Problem 94
Mechanical Problem 59
Material Deformation 52
Mechanical Jam 35
Break 16
Defective Device 16
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 11
Positioning Problem 11
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 10
Kinked 10
Patient Device Interaction Problem 10
Shipping Damage or Problem 10
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 8
Material Separation 8
Difficult to Open or Remove Packaging Material 7
Signal Artifact/Noise 7
Difficult to Remove 6
Positioning Failure 6
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 5
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5

Yearly Trend

04
2004: 1
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 1
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 8
11
2011: 10
12
2012: 9
13
2013: 6
14
2014: 17
15
2015: 34
16
2016: 25
17
2017: 11
18
2018: 21
19
2019: 38
20
2020: 28
21
2021: 55
22
2022: 12
23
2023: 30
24
2024: 47
25
2025: 66
26
2026: 3

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Event Locations

221 (51.9%)
I 171 (40.1%)
HOSPITAL 28 (6.6%)
OTHER 5 (1.2%)
NO INFORMATION 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed, 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 (426 here).

Resectoscope, Working Element 426 Forceps, Biopsy, Electric 425 Laparoscope 427 System, X-Ray, Mammographic 427

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed 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, Recording, Electrode, Reprocessed; 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.