2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

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

reports

What this shows Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer) carries 1,308 MAUDE reports, ranked #603 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 815 (62.3%)
Injury 380 (29.1%)
Other 102 (7.8%)
8 (0.6%)
Death 3 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

489 (35.2%)
Other 424 (30.5%)
Required Intervention 339 (24.4%)
R 75 (5.4%)
Hospitalization 26 (1.9%)
Life Threatening 15 (1.1%)
O 7 (0.5%)
Disability 6 (0.4%)
Death 3 (0.2%)
S 2 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 458
Leak/Splash 114
Detachment Of Device Component 67
Fluid/Blood Leak 58
Difficult to Remove 57
Fracture 52
Product Quality Problem 49
Nonstandard Device 48
No Flow 43
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 39
Bent 37
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 34
Crack 33
Device, or device fragments remain in patient 33
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 32
Device, removal of (non-implant) 31
Tip breakage 29
Detachment of Device or Device Component 28
Partial Blockage 28
Complete Blockage 27

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 2
96
1996: 8
97
1997: 20
98
1998: 6
99
1999: 9
00
2000: 11
01
2001: 9
02
2002: 10
03
2003: 12
04
2004: 21
05
2005: 31
06
2006: 30
07
2007: 26
08
2008: 24
09
2009: 30
10
2010: 49
11
2011: 33
12
2012: 20
13
2013: 32
14
2014: 41
15
2015: 38
16
2016: 152
17
2017: 34
18
2018: 69
19
2019: 86
20
2020: 78
21
2021: 52
22
2022: 84
23
2023: 75
24
2024: 66
25
2025: 87
26
2026: 59

Reports in 2025 (87) held close to the prior two-year average of 71.

Related Entities for Needle, Conduction, Anesthetic (W/Wo Introducer)

Event Locations

690 (52.8%)
I 410 (31.3%)
HOSPITAL 136 (10.4%)
NO INFORMATION 35 (2.7%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 14 (1.1%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.5%)
OTHER 7 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.3%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.2%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare BECTON DICKINSON vs BECTON DICKINSON, S.A. →

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.

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.