Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial
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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §868.6810 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#375 of 1000 · 3,457 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 3,457 reports
- RANK #375 of 1000
- DEATH 42 death-typed
- INJ 350 injury-typed
- MALF 2,935 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2018: 721
- PHOTO Control
Nearest event-volume peer: Control, Pump Speed, Cardiopulmonary Bypass (12 report gap)
Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial sits #375 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,457 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
Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial carries 10.1% INJURY-coded reports, 20.2pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.2% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.3 pp)
- INJ 10.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.2 pp)
- MALF 84.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Disconnection is 28% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AVANOS MEDICAL INC. accounts for 85% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .
Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Extractor
Extractor
3,487 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Hypoglossal Nerve, Implanted, Apnea
3,486 reports
- Control
Control, Pump Speed, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
3,469 reports
- Catheters (this)
Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial
3,457 reports
- Gauge, Depth
Gauge, Depth
3,439 reports
- Active Implan…
Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing System
3,437 reports
What this shows Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial carries 3,457 MAUDE reports, ranked #375 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 (164) held close to the prior two-year average of 204.
Related Entities for Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial: 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 (3,457 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (42 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial 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 Catheters, Suction, Tracheobronchial; 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.