2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Midline Catheter

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 Midline Catheter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#668 of 1000 · 983 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 983 reports
  • RANK #668 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 174 injury-typed
  • MALF 806 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 178
  • PHOTO Hepatitis A Test

Nearest event-volume peer: Hepatitis A Test (Antibody And Igm Antibody) (1 report gap)

Midline Catheter sits #668 of 1000 among tracked device types with 983 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Midline Catheter carries 82.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 17.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 17.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-12.6 pp)
  • MALF 82.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+17.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 accounts for 65% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 71% 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 983 MAUDE reports, ranked #668 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 806 (82.0%)
Injury 174 (17.7%)
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 504 (50.6%)
303 (30.4%)
Required Intervention 166 (16.7%)
O 6 (0.6%)
R 6 (0.6%)
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 238
Material Deformation 150
Break 84
Material Frayed 76
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 69
Difficult or Delayed Separation 42
Material Separation 42
Activation Problem 37
Defective Component 33
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
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 14
Leak/Splash 14
Difficult to Insert 11
Failure to Advance 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: 69

Reports in 2025 (145) held close to the prior two-year average of 153.

Related Entities for Midline Catheter

Event Locations

701 (71.3%)
HOSPITAL 161 (16.4%)
I 114 (11.6%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (0.5%)
HOME 2 (0.2%)

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

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Midline Catheter: 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 (983 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

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.