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Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#832 of 1000 · 564 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 564 reports
  • RANK #832 of 1000
  • DEATH 17 death-typed
  • INJ 244 injury-typed
  • MALF 248 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2008: 72
  • PHOTO Chair

Nearest event-volume peer: Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical (0 report gap)

Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic sits #832 of 1000 among tracked device types with 564 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 → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 3.0% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.5 pp)
  • INJ 43.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+12.8 pp)
  • MALF 44.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-20.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 30% of coded problems · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic carries 564 MAUDE reports, ranked #832 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 248 (44.0%)
Injury 244 (43.3%)
Other 38 (6.7%)
17 (3.0%)
Death 17 (3.0%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

231 (38.3%)
Other 161 (26.7%)
Required Intervention 109 (18.1%)
Hospitalization 32 (5.3%)
R 18 (3.0%)
Death 18 (3.0%)
L 9 (1.5%)
Life Threatening 9 (1.5%)
H 4 (0.7%)
O 4 (0.7%)
S 2 (0.3%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.3%)
D 1 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)
Not Applicable 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 30
Air/Gas in Device 10
Improper Flow or Infusion 8
Break 7
Insufficient Information 7
No Apparent Adverse Event 6
Detachment of Device or Device Component 3
Mechanical Problem 3
Use of Device Problem 3
Communication or Transmission Problem 2
Connection Problem 2
Device Displays Incorrect Message 2
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 2
Excess Flow or Over-Infusion 2
Gas/Air Leak 2
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 2
Inaccurate Delivery 2
Infusion or Flow Problem 2
Leak/Splash 2
No Display/Image 2

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 3
94
1994: 8
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 28
97
1997: 47
98
1998: 15
99
1999: 7
00
2000: 8
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 14
08
2008: 72
09
2009: 48
10
2010: 42
11
2011: 41
12
2012: 23
13
2013: 23
14
2014: 14
15
2015: 5
16
2016: 7
17
2017: 3
18
2018: 8
19
2019: 9
20
2020: 13
21
2021: 14
22
2022: 24
23
2023: 16
24
2024: 23
25
2025: 21
26
2026: 2

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Event Locations

342 (60.6%)
HOSPITAL 117 (20.7%)
I 41 (7.3%)
INVALID DATA 26 (4.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 18 (3.2%)
OTHER 7 (1.2%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 6 (1.1%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (0.9%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.2%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (564 here).

Chair, Adjustable, Mechanical 564 Microspheres Radionuclide 562 Counter, Sponge, Surgical 560 Device, Anastomotic, Microvascular 568

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (17 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Blood Circuit, Hemodialysis 17 Agent, Occluding, Vascular, Permanent 17 Cable, Transducer And Electrode, Patient, 17 Cardiovascular Procedure Kit 17

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic 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 Injector, Contrast Medium, Automatic; 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.