2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Pump, Infusion

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 §880.5725 (General Hospital panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Pump, Infusion HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#3 of 1000 · 1,827,009 reports · 1991–2026

  • BOOK 1,827,009 reports
  • RANK #3 of 1000
  • DEATH 1,751 death-typed
  • INJ 24,185 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,798,832 malfunction
  • SPAN 1991–2026
  • PEAK 2022: 888,020
  • PHOTO Integrated Continuous…

Nearest event-volume peer: Integrated Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, Factory Calibrated (347,186 report gap)

Pump, Infusion sits #3 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,827,009 MAUDE reports spanning 1991–2026. 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

Pump, Infusion carries 98.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 1.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.0 pp)
  • MALF 98.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+33.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Crack is 41% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CAREFUSION SD accounts for 80% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Pump, Infusion in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Pump, Infusion carries 1,827,009 MAUDE reports, ranked #3 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,798,832 (98.5%)
Injury 24,185 (1.3%)
Death 1,751 (0.1%)
Other 1,245 (0.1%)
993 (0.1%)
No answer provided 3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,790,788 (98.0%)
Other 21,483 (1.2%)
Required Intervention 5,629 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 3,801 (0.2%)
Death 1,691 (0.1%)
R 1,494 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1,313 (0.1%)
O 498 (0.0%)
L 288 (0.0%)
Disability 136 (0.0%)
H 125 (0.0%)
S 85 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 78 (0.0%)
D 50 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 25 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Crack 737,742
Corroded 211,495
Device Displays Incorrect Message 169,347
Break 155,354
Display Difficult to Read 92,329
Device Sensing Problem 68,811
Failure to Read Input Signal 54,287
Device Alarm System 51,203
Contamination 37,911
No Apparent Adverse Event 30,765
Physical Resistance/Sticking 21,846
Excess Flow or Over-Infusion 21,604
Battery Problem 21,300
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 20,331
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 17,818
Circuit Failure 17,303
Failure to Sense 16,581
Failure to Calibrate 15,976
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 15,645
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 15,177

Yearly Trend

91
1991: 2
92
1992: 60
93
1993: 67
94
1994: 182
95
1995: 132
96
1996: 514
97
1997: 1,355
98
1998: 1,313
99
1999: 1,403
00
2000: 1,121
01
2001: 1,829
02
2002: 7,472
03
2003: 8,527
04
2004: 2,870
05
2005: 9,479
06
2006: 4,705
07
2007: 1,087
08
2008: 8,261
09
2009: 1,952
10
2010: 6,133
11
2011: 41,369
12
2012: 15,485
13
2013: 40,087
14
2014: 94,180
15
2015: 26,742
16
2016: 16,561
17
2017: 12,060
18
2018: 16,591
19
2019: 15,850
20
2020: 94,186
21
2021: 199,342
22
2022: 888,020
23
2023: 165,838
24
2024: 57,731
25
2025: 53,486
26
2026: 31,017

Reports fell to 53,486 in 2025, down from an average of 111,785 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Pump, Infusion

Event Locations

1,566,059 (85.7%)
I 241,186 (13.2%)
HOSPITAL 11,396 (0.6%)
NO INFORMATION 5,666 (0.3%)
OTHER 1,145 (0.1%)
HOME 611 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 304 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 270 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 263 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 34 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 27 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 24 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 18 (0.0%)
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
EMERGENCY ROOM 1 (0.0%)
IN TRANSIT TO USER/MEDICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
MOBILE HEALTH UNIT 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT CLINIC/SURGERY 1 (0.0%)

Compare CAREFUSION SD vs BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pump, Infusion: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pump, Infusion 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 Pump, Infusion; 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.