Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature
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 §870.1330 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#797 of 1000 · 657 reports · 1995–2026
- BOOK 657 reports
- RANK #797 of 1000
- DEATH 15 death-typed
- INJ 176 injury-typed
- MALF 464 malfunction
- SPAN 1995–2026
- PEAK 2025: 137
- PHOTO Instruments
Nearest event-volume peer: Instruments, Dental Hand (1 report gap)
Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature sits #797 of 1000 among tracked device types with 657 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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
Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature carries 70.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 5.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.8 pp)
- INJ 26.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-3.5 pp)
- MALF 70.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+5.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Fracture is 36% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MICROVENTION, INC accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .
Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Instrument
Instrument, Coagulation, Automated
661 reports
- Full Field Di…
Full Field Digital, System, X-Ray, Mammographic
659 reports
- Guide (this)
Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature
657 reports
- Instruments
Instruments, Dental Hand
656 reports
- Instrument Fo…
Instrument For Treatment Of Hyperhidrosis
655 reports
- Cannula
Cannula, Catheter
654 reports
What this shows Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature carries 657 MAUDE reports, ranked #797 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 137 in 2025, up from an average of 93 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature: 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 (657 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (15 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature 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 Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature; 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.