Epidural Anesthesia Kit
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 §868.5120 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Epidural Anesthesia Kit LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#636 of 1000 · 1,130 reports · 2008–2026
- BOOK 1,130 reports
- RANK #636 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 98 injury-typed
- MALF 1,030 malfunction
- SPAN 2008–2026
- PEAK 2019: 341
- PHOTO Pulmonic Valved Condu…
Nearest event-volume peer: Pulmonic Valved Conduit (3 report gap)
Epidural Anesthesia Kit sits #636 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,130 MAUDE reports spanning 2008–2026. 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
Epidural Anesthesia Kit carries 91.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 26.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 8.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-21.6 pp)
- MALF 91.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+26.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC. accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 47% of location-tagged rows .
Epidural Anesthesia Kit in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee Patellofemorotibial, Partial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Polymer/Metal/Polymer
1,136 reports
- Pulmonic Valv…
Pulmonic Valved Conduit
1,133 reports
- Epidural Anes… (this)
Epidural Anesthesia Kit
1,130 reports
- Apparatus
Apparatus, Suction, Patient Care
1,122 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Femoral, Metal Ball
1,120 reports
- Intervertebra…
Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft, Cervical
1,117 reports
What this shows Epidural Anesthesia Kit carries 1,130 MAUDE reports, ranked #636 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 (98) held close to the prior two-year average of 83.
Related Entities for Epidural Anesthesia Kit
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Epidural Anesthesia Kit carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,130 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Epidural Anesthesia Kit 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 Epidural Anesthesia Kit; 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.