Heparin, Vascular Access Flush
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 Heparin, Vascular Access Flush LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#733 of 1000 · 800 reports · 2004–2026
- BOOK 800 reports
- RANK #733 of 1000
- DEATH 206 death-typed
- INJ 234 injury-typed
- MALF 280 malfunction
- SPAN 2004–2026
- PEAK 2008: 291
- PHOTO Tray
Nearest event-volume peer: Tray, Catheterization, Sterile Urethral, With Or Without Catheter (Kit) (0 report gap)
Heparin, Vascular Access Flush sits #733 of 1000 among tracked device types with 800 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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 sit below the device-type norm
Heparin, Vascular Access Flush carries 35.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 29.8pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 25.8% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+24.2 pp)
- INJ 29.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- MALF 35.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-29.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer COVIDIEN accounts for 85% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 48% of location-tagged rows .
Heparin, Vascular Access Flush in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Drape
Drape, Surgical, Antimicrobial
803 reports
- Humidifier
Humidifier, Non-Direct Patient Interface (Home-Use)
801 reports
- Heparin (this)
Heparin, Vascular Access Flush
800 reports
- Tray
Tray, Catheterization, Sterile Urethral, With Or Without Catheter (Kit)
800 reports
- Electrode
Electrode, Electrosurgical
798 reports
- Enteroscope A…
Enteroscope And Accessories
796 reports
What this shows Heparin, Vascular Access Flush carries 800 MAUDE reports, ranked #733 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 (11) held close to the prior two-year average of 10.
Related Entities for Heparin, Vascular Access Flush
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Heparin, Vascular Access Flush: 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 (800 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (206 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Heparin, Vascular Access Flush 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 Heparin, Vascular Access Flush; 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.