Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular
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 §870.2120 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#973 of 1000 · 398 reports · 1997–2026
- BOOK 398 reports
- RANK #973 of 1000
- DEATH 7 death-typed
- INJ 16 injury-typed
- MALF 375 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2026
- PEAK 2024: 169
- PHOTO Device
Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Percutaneous Retrieval (0 report gap)
Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular sits #973 of 1000 among tracked device types with 398 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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
Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular carries 94.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 29.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.8% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.3 pp)
- INJ 4.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.3 pp)
- MALF 94.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+29.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. accounts for 87% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 89% of location-tagged rows .
Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Device
Device, Medical Examination, Ac Powered
401 reports
- Bag
Bag, Urine Collection, Leg, For External Use, Sterile
399 reports
- Diazo Colorim…
Diazo Colorimetry, Bilirubin
399 reports
- Probe (this)
Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular
398 reports
- Device
Device, Percutaneous Retrieval
398 reports
- Alkaline Picr…
Alkaline Picrate, Colorimetry, Creatinine
394 reports
What this shows Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular carries 398 MAUDE reports, ranked #973 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 fell to 53 in 2025, down from an average of 95 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular: 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 (398 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (7 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular 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 Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular; 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.