What are FDA adverse event reports for Catheter, Straight?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Catheter, Straight, there are 4,147 total reports including 6 death reports and 1,163 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Catheter, Straight?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Catheter, Straight

Name: Catheter, Straight - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
Creator: PlainHospital
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Catheter, Straight LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#347 of 1000 · 4,147 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 4,147 reports
RANK #347 of 1000
DEATH 6 death-typed
INJ 1,163 injury-typed
MALF 2,973 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2021: 994
PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Uncemented (3 report gap)

Catheter, Straight sits #347 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,147 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
INJ 28.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-2.4 pp)
MALF 71.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+7.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 accounts for 94% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Battery

4,251
Computer

4,214
Stretcher

4,210
Vaporizer

4,162
Catheter (this)

4,147
Prosthesis

4,144

What this shows Catheter, Straight carries 4,147 MAUDE reports, ranked #347 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 2,973 (71.7%)

Injury 1,163 (28.0%)

Death 6 (0.1%)

Other 3 (0.1%)

2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,257 (53.0%)

Other 1,511 (35.5%)

Required Intervention 248 (5.8%)

Hospitalization 108 (2.5%)

R 71 (1.7%)

O 39 (0.9%)

H 12 (0.3%)

Death 6 (0.1%)

Disability 2 (0.0%)

Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)

L 1 (0.0%)

S 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 1

1994: 1

1999: 3

2000: 1

2001: 2

2003: 1

2004: 1

2009: 4

2010: 6

2011: 4

2012: 2

2013: 18

2014: 17

2015: 21

2016: 21

2017: 120

2018: 390

2019: 466

2020: 563

2021: 994

2022: 487

2023: 553

2024: 116

2025: 291

2026: 64

Top Manufacturers

C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 2,341

C.R. BARD INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 129

COLOPLAST A/S 32

Event Locations

2,210 (53.3%)

I 1,912 (46.1%)

HOSPITAL 15 (0.4%)

NO INFORMATION 7 (0.2%)

HOME 2 (0.0%)

UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 vs C.R. BARD INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Straight, 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 (4,147 here).

Prosthesis 4,144 Vaporizer, Anesthesia, Non-Heated 4,162 Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered 4,210 Computer, Diagnostic, Programmable 4,214

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.

Applicator, Absorbent Tipped, Non-Sterile 6 Cable, Electrode 6 Device, Percutaneous Retrieval 6 Dilator, Catheter, Ureteral 6

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

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

Catheter, Straight

Event-type mix vs corpus