Catheter, Straight
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 §876.5130 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheter, Straight LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#348 of 1000 · 4,229 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 4,229 reports
- RANK #348 of 1000
- DEATH 6 death-typed
- INJ 1,184 injury-typed
- MALF 3,034 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2021: 994
- PHOTO Stretcher
Nearest event-volume peer: Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered (3 report gap)
Catheter, Straight sits #348 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,229 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Catheter, Straight carries 71.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 6.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 28.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-2.3 pp)
- MALF 71.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+6.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 accounts for 93% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter, Straight in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pump
Pump, Blood, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Non-Roller Type
4,355 reports
- Battery
Battery, Replacement, Rechargeable
4,301 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Straight
4,229 reports
- Stretcher
Stretcher, Wheeled, Powered
4,226 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Uncemented
4,170 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Manual, Surgical, General Use
4,143 reports
What this shows Catheter, Straight carries 4,229 MAUDE reports, ranked #348 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
Reports in 2025 (291) held close to the prior two-year average of 335.
Related Entities for Catheter, Straight
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare C.R. BARD, INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 vs C.R. BARD INC. (COVINGTON) -1018233 →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Straight: 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 (4,229 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.