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Midline Catheter

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 Midline Catheter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#671 of 1000 · 939 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 939 reports
  • RANK #671 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 168 injury-typed
  • MALF 768 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 178
  • PHOTO Absorbable Coronary D…

Nearest event-volume peer: Absorbable Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent (10 report gap)

Midline Catheter sits #671 of 1000 among tracked device types with 939 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. 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 →

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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 17.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-12.5 pp)
  • MALF 81.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+17.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 70% of location-tagged rows .

Midline Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Midline Catheter carries 939 MAUDE reports, ranked #671 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 768 (81.8%)
Injury 168 (17.9%)
Death 2 (0.2%)
Other 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 468 (49.2%)
303 (31.9%)
Required Intervention 159 (16.7%)
R 6 (0.6%)
O 4 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 4 (0.4%)
Death 2 (0.2%)
Disability 2 (0.2%)
H 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 228
Material Deformation 136
Break 84
Material Frayed 71
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 67
Material Separation 42
Difficult or Delayed Separation 38
Activation Problem 36
Defective Component 34
Failure to Infuse 20
Detachment of Device or Device Component 18
Difficult to Remove 15
Material Split, Cut or Torn 15
Material Twisted/Bent 15
Physical Resistance/Sticking 15
Leak/Splash 14
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 12
Failure to Advance 11
Difficult to Insert 10
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 9

Yearly Trend

16
2016: 5
17
2017: 23
18
2018: 19
19
2019: 59
20
2020: 93
21
2021: 86
22
2022: 178
23
2023: 138
24
2024: 168
25
2025: 145
26
2026: 25

Related Entities for Midline Catheter

Top Manufacturers

C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 543
BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS 154
ARROW INTERNATIONAL LLC 122
ARROW INTERNATIONAL INC. 24
BD (SUZHOU) 8

Event Locations

657 (70.0%)
HOSPITAL 161 (17.1%)
I 114 (12.1%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (0.5%)
HOME 2 (0.2%)

Compare C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 vs BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Midline Catheter, 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 (939 here).

Absorbable Coronary Drug-Eluting Stent 929 Blade, Scalpel 954 Pump, Portable, Aspiration 956 Resectoscope 920

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Catheter, G-U 2 Accessories, Soft Lens Products 2 Analyzer, Chemistry Clinical Use 2 Bed, Pediatric Open Hospital 2

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Midline Catheter 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 Midline Catheter; 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.