Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer)
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 §868.5150 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#603 of 1000 · 1,308 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,308 reports
- RANK #603 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 380 injury-typed
- MALF 815 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2016: 152
- PHOTO Tap, Bone
Nearest event-volume peer: Tap, Bone (3 report gap)
Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer) sits #603 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,308 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 sit below the device-type norm
Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic carries 62.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 2.5pp below 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 29.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
- MALF 62.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-2.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON accounts for 26% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .
Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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1,316 reports
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1,308 reports
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1,305 reports
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What this shows Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer) carries 1,308 MAUDE reports, ranked #603 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 (87) held close to the prior two-year average of 71.
Related Entities for Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic: 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 (1,308 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic 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 Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic; 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.