2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Introducer, Syringe Needle

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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FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §880.6920 (General Hospital panel).

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openFDA event book Introducer, Syringe Needle LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#646 of 1000 · 1,079 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,079 reports
  • RANK #646 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 238 injury-typed
  • MALF 829 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 158
  • PHOTO Hemostatic Device For…

Nearest event-volume peer: Hemostatic Device For Endoscopic Gastrointestinal Use (2 report gap)

Introducer, Syringe Needle sits #646 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,079 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Introducer, Syringe Needle carries 76.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 12.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 22.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-8.2 pp)
  • MALF 76.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+12.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unintended Ejection is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INC. accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 37% of location-tagged rows .

Introducer, Syringe Needle in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Introducer, Syringe Needle carries 1,079 MAUDE reports, ranked #646 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 829 (76.8%)
Injury 238 (22.1%)
Other 6 (0.6%)
5 (0.5%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

918 (84.0%)
Hospitalization 86 (7.9%)
Other 45 (4.1%)
Required Intervention 25 (2.3%)
R 9 (0.8%)
S 3 (0.3%)
H 2 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Unintended Ejection 347
Misfire 211
Bent 57
Break 54
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 46
Sticking 45
Defective Device 28
Failure to Deliver 27
Insufficient Device Problem Information 25
Difficult to Insert 18
Mechanical Jam 18
Device Displays Incorrect Message 17
Physical Resistance/Sticking 17
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 13
Defective Component 13
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 13
Fluid/Blood Leak 12
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 12
Material Twisted/Bent 11
Leak/Splash 9

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 2
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 1
05
2005: 1
07
2007: 2
10
2010: 3
11
2011: 20
12
2012: 20
13
2013: 53
14
2014: 138
15
2015: 99
16
2016: 68
17
2017: 88
18
2018: 88
19
2019: 95
20
2020: 158
21
2021: 87
22
2022: 58
23
2023: 35
24
2024: 27
25
2025: 17
26
2026: 5

Reports fell to 17 in 2025, down from an average of 31 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Introducer, Syringe Needle

Event Locations

I 396 (36.7%)
355 (32.9%)
NO INFORMATION 162 (15.0%)
HOME 57 (5.3%)
U 56 (5.2%)
OTHER 24 (2.2%)
HOSPITAL 21 (1.9%)
INVALID DATA 4 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.1%)

Compare ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INC. vs MEDTRONIC MINIMED →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Introducer, Syringe Needle: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Introducer, Syringe Needle 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 Introducer, Syringe Needle; 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.