Catheter, Umbilical Artery
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 §880.5200 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheter, Umbilical Artery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#561 of 1000 · 1,545 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,545 reports
- RANK #561 of 1000
- DEATH 33 death-typed
- INJ 249 injury-typed
- MALF 1,184 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2017: 139
- PHOTO Toothbrush, Manual
Nearest event-volume peer: Toothbrush, Manual (1 report gap)
Catheter, Umbilical Artery sits #561 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,545 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 →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Catheter, Umbilical Artery carries 16.1% INJURY-coded reports, 14.2pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.1% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.6 pp)
- INJ 16.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-14.2 pp)
- MALF 76.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+11.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 90% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location HOSPITAL is 45% of location-tagged rows .
Catheter, Umbilical Artery in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Barrier
Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion
1,558 reports
- Modular Elect…
Modular Electromechanical Surgical System
1,552 reports
- Reagent
Reagent, Coronavirus Serological
1,550 reports
- Catheter (this)
Catheter, Umbilical Artery
1,545 reports
- Toothbrush
Toothbrush, Manual
1,544 reports
- Equipment
Equipment, Laboratory, General Purpose, Labeled Or Promoted For A Specific Medical Use
1,540 reports
What this shows Catheter, Umbilical Artery carries 1,545 MAUDE reports, ranked #561 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 rose to 56 in 2025, up from an average of 36 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Catheter, Umbilical Artery
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheter, Umbilical Artery: 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 (1,545 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (33 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.