Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular
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 §880.5965 (General Hospital panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Port & Catheter MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#135 of 1000 · 21,943 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 21,943 reports
- RANK #135 of 1000
- DEATH 373 death-typed
- INJ 12,591 injury-typed
- MALF 8,549 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 4,363
- PHOTO Lens
Nearest event-volume peer: Lens, Intraocular, Phakic (54 report gap)
Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular sits #135 of 1000 among tracked device types with 21,943 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Port & Catheter carries 57.4% INJURY-coded reports, 27.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.7% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.2 pp)
- INJ 57.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+27.1 pp)
- MALF 39.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-25.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Fracture is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer C.R. BARD, INC. (BASD) -3006260740 accounts for 79% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .
Port & Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Screwdriver
Screwdriver
23,256 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Shoulder, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer Cemented
23,248 reports
- Implant
Implant, Dermal, For Aesthetic Use
22,615 reports
- Lens
Lens, Intraocular, Phakic
21,997 reports
- Port & Cathet… (this)
Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular
21,943 reports
- Drills
Drills, Burrs, Trephines & Accessories (Simple, Powered)
21,585 reports
What this shows Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular carries 21,943 MAUDE reports, ranked #135 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 rose to 4,363 in 2025, up from an average of 1,559 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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 Port & 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 (21,943 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (373 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Port & 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 Port & 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.