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Catheter, Umbilical Artery

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, Umbilical Artery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#549 of 1000 · 1,535 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,535 reports
  • RANK #549 of 1000
  • DEATH 33 death-typed
  • INJ 247 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,176 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 139
  • PHOTO Equipment

Nearest event-volume peer: Equipment, Laboratory, General Purpose, Labeled Or Promoted For A Specific Medical Use (1 report gap)

Catheter, Umbilical Artery sits #549 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,535 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 2.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.6 pp)
  • INJ 16.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-14.3 pp)
  • MALF 76.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+12.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 46% of location-tagged rows .

Catheter, Umbilical Artery in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Catheter, Umbilical Artery carries 1,535 MAUDE reports, ranked #549 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,176 (76.6%)
Injury 247 (16.1%)
Other 45 (2.9%)
34 (2.2%)
Death 33 (2.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,159 (74.0%)
Required Intervention 176 (11.2%)
Other 117 (7.5%)
Death 35 (2.2%)
R 22 (1.4%)
Life Threatening 16 (1.0%)
Hospitalization 15 (1.0%)
Disability 9 (0.6%)
O 5 (0.3%)
Invalid Data 5 (0.3%)
S 3 (0.2%)
L 2 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 188
Leak/Splash 165
Break 128
Crack 73
Connection Problem 30
Material Fragmentation 18
Hole In Material 17
Fracture 15
Material Puncture/Hole 15
Malposition of Device 12
Positioning Problem 12
Material Split, Cut or Torn 10
Air Leak 9
Detachment of Device or Device Component 9
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 8
Migration 8
Obstruction of Flow 8
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 7
Use of Device Problem 7
Backflow 6

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 7
93
1993: 5
94
1994: 18
95
1995: 7
96
1996: 17
97
1997: 45
98
1998: 33
99
1999: 21
00
2000: 21
01
2001: 16
02
2002: 4
03
2003: 14
04
2004: 15
05
2005: 20
06
2006: 38
07
2007: 26
08
2008: 42
09
2009: 40
10
2010: 94
11
2011: 74
12
2012: 70
13
2013: 95
14
2014: 69
15
2015: 81
16
2016: 115
17
2017: 139
18
2018: 84
19
2019: 64
20
2020: 43
21
2021: 49
22
2022: 38
23
2023: 20
24
2024: 52
25
2025: 56
26
2026: 3

Related Entities for Catheter, Umbilical Artery

Top Manufacturers

COVIDIEN 698
CARDINAL HEALTH 49
BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS 29

Event Locations

HOSPITAL 701 (45.7%)
I 420 (27.4%)
361 (23.5%)
NO INFORMATION 24 (1.6%)
INVALID DATA 15 (1.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 7 (0.5%)
OTHER 4 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.1%)
HOME 1 (0.1%)

Compare COVIDIEN vs CARDINAL HEALTH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Umbilical Artery, 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 (1,535 here).

Equipment 1,536 Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion 1,538 Over-The-Counter Automated External Defibri… 1,538 Set, Tubing And Support, Ventilator 1,531

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (33 here), distinct from the volume row.

Bed, Air Fluidized 33 Electrocardiograph 33 Glucose Dehydrogenase, Glucose 33 Percutaneously Delivered Prostheses And Tri… 33

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheter, Umbilical Artery 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, Umbilical Artery; 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.