2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Catheter, Septostomy

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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §870.5175 (Cardiovascular panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Catheter, Septostomy LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#482 of 1000 · 2,144 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 2,144 reports
  • RANK #482 of 1000
  • DEATH 104 death-typed
  • INJ 1,371 injury-typed
  • MALF 663 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 692
  • PHOTO Bottle

Nearest event-volume peer: Bottle, Collection, Vacuum (1 report gap)

Catheter, Septostomy sits #482 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,144 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

Catheter, Septostomy carries 30.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 4.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+3.3 pp)
  • INJ 63.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+33.7 pp)
  • MALF 30.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-33.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 87% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 89% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter, Septostomy in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Septostomy carries 2,144 MAUDE reports, ranked #482 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,371 (63.9%)
Malfunction 663 (30.9%)
Death 104 (4.9%)
Other 4 (0.2%)
2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

666 (20.7%)
Required Intervention 602 (18.7%)
R 481 (14.9%)
H 398 (12.4%)
Hospitalization 340 (10.6%)
L 248 (7.7%)
Other 183 (5.7%)
Life Threatening 157 (4.9%)
Death 57 (1.8%)
O 43 (1.3%)
D 42 (1.3%)
S 3 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,041
Difficult to Advance 234
Failure to Advance 222
Material Integrity Problem 181
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 107
Positioning Problem 97
Material Deformation 79
Physical Resistance/Sticking 71
Use of Device Problem 71
Device Sensing Problem 53
Detachment of Device or Device Component 43
Off-Label Use 40
Nonstandard Device 31
Difficult to Remove 30
Device-Device Incompatibility 29
Burst Container or Vessel 23
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 23
Defective Device 21
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 19
Insufficient Device Problem Information 18

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 2
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 1
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 4
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 8
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 4
11
2011: 6
12
2012: 2
13
2013: 1
14
2014: 4
15
2015: 21
16
2016: 13
17
2017: 13
18
2018: 36
19
2019: 24
20
2020: 55
21
2021: 39
22
2022: 70
23
2023: 286
24
2024: 368
25
2025: 692
26
2026: 474

Reports rose to 692 in 2025, up from an average of 327 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Catheter, Septostomy

Event Locations

1,902 (88.7%)
I 184 (8.6%)
HOSPITAL 55 (2.6%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs MEDTRONIC, INC →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Septostomy: 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 (2,144 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (104 here), distinct from the volume row.

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