2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen

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 §880.5570 (General Hospital panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#86 of 1000 · 39,692 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 39,692 reports
  • RANK #86 of 1000
  • DEATH 67 death-typed
  • INJ 4,168 injury-typed
  • MALF 34,790 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 4,986
  • PHOTO Plate, Fixation, Bone

Nearest event-volume peer: Plate, Fixation, Bone (874 report gap)

Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen sits #86 of 1000 among tracked device types with 39,692 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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

Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen carries 87.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 22.8pp 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 10.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-19.8 pp)
  • MALF 87.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+22.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Deliver is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON AND CO. accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .

Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen carries 39,692 MAUDE reports, ranked #86 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 34,790 (87.6%)
Injury 4,168 (10.5%)
Other 540 (1.4%)
126 (0.3%)
Death 67 (0.2%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

25,039 (62.6%)
Other 11,862 (29.6%)
Required Intervention 2,168 (5.4%)
Hospitalization 385 (1.0%)
R 251 (0.6%)
O 95 (0.2%)
Death 80 (0.2%)
Disability 39 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 38 (0.1%)
S 29 (0.1%)
H 19 (0.0%)
L 14 (0.0%)
D 5 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Deliver 6,972
Break 5,039
Complete Blockage 3,400
Leak/Splash 3,386
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 2,137
Fluid/Blood Leak 1,292
Detachment Of Device Component 1,201
Defective Device 1,139
Misconnection 1,124
Detachment of Device or Device Component 1,008
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 868
Difficult or Delayed Activation 852
Defective Component 623
Product Quality Problem 546
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 529
Material Twisted/Bent 517
Packaging Problem 496
Material Separation 469
Difficult to Remove 468
Component Missing 461

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 3
94
1994: 14
95
1995: 16
96
1996: 51
97
1997: 89
98
1998: 80
99
1999: 59
00
2000: 45
01
2001: 110
02
2002: 125
03
2003: 148
04
2004: 199
05
2005: 182
06
2006: 236
07
2007: 208
08
2008: 177
09
2009: 263
10
2010: 249
11
2011: 240
12
2012: 215
13
2013: 255
14
2014: 287
15
2015: 567
16
2016: 941
17
2017: 1,547
18
2018: 2,398
19
2019: 4,896
20
2020: 4,245
21
2021: 4,532
22
2022: 4,885
23
2023: 4,986
24
2024: 4,053
25
2025: 2,465
26
2026: 926

Reports fell to 2,465 in 2025, down from an average of 4,520 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen

Event Locations

19,845 (50.0%)
I 16,830 (42.4%)
HOSPITAL 1,312 (3.3%)
NO INFORMATION 654 (1.6%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 302 (0.8%)
OTHER 266 (0.7%)
HOME 202 (0.5%)
NOT APPLICABLE 92 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 79 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 33 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 32 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 29 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 7 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 2 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.0%)
LABORATORY 1 (0.0%)

Compare BECTON DICKINSON AND CO. vs BECTON DICKINSON →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen: 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 (39,692 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (67 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Needle, Hypodermic, Single Lumen 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, Hypodermic, Single Lumen; 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.