Catheter, Steerable
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, Steerable MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#185 of 1000 · 12,715 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 12,715 reports
- RANK #185 of 1000
- DEATH 236 death-typed
- INJ 4,709 injury-typed
- MALF 7,767 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 4,084
- PHOTO Pulse-Generator
Nearest event-volume peer: Pulse-Generator, Pacemaker, External (56 report gap)
Catheter, Steerable sits #185 of 1000 among tracked device types with 12,715 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 1.9% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.3 pp)
- INJ 37.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+6.6 pp)
- MALF 61.1% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-3.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 66% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter, Steerable in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pulse-Generat…
Pulse-Generator, Pacemaker, External
12,771 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Steerable
12,715 reports
- Electrode
Electrode, Ph, Stomach
12,589 reports
- Endoscopic Ul…
Endoscopic Ultrasound System, Gastroenterology-Urology
12,569 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Femoral, Resurfacing
12,475 reports
- Endoscope
Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum
12,449 reports
What this shows Catheter, Steerable carries 12,715 MAUDE reports, ranked #185 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
Related Entities for Catheter, Steerable
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs MEDTRONIC CRYOCATH LP →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Steerable, 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 (12,715 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (236 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Steerable 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, Steerable; 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.