2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Saline, Vascular Access Flush

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Saline, Vascular Access Flush LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#389 of 1000 · 3,051 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 3,051 reports
  • RANK #389 of 1000
  • DEATH 22 death-typed
  • INJ 267 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,687 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 566
  • PHOTO Prosthesis, Esophageal

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Esophageal (0 report gap)

Saline, Vascular Access Flush sits #389 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,051 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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 →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 8.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-21.7 pp)
  • MALF 88.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 31% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BD MEDICAL (BD WEST) MEDICAL SURGICAL accounts for 58% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Saline, Vascular Access Flush in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Saline, Vascular Access Flush carries 3,051 MAUDE reports, ranked #389 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 2,687 (88.1%)
Injury 267 (8.8%)
Other 60 (2.0%)
Death 22 (0.7%)
15 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,803 (58.5%)
Other 1,045 (33.9%)
Hospitalization 86 (2.8%)
Required Intervention 74 (2.4%)
Death 19 (0.6%)
R 11 (0.4%)
O 10 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 10 (0.3%)
L 8 (0.3%)
H 7 (0.2%)
Disability 5 (0.2%)
S 4 (0.1%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Leak/Splash 833
Failure to Deliver 385
Break 251
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 175
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 132
Physical Resistance/Sticking 123
Packaging Problem 112
Defective Component 81
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 80
Material Separation 68
Contamination 61
Fluid/Blood Leak 54
Crack 53
Microbial Contamination of Device 51
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 43
Volume Accuracy Problem 40
Device Damaged Prior to Use 38
Material Deformation 38
Short Fill 38
Mechanical Problem 37

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 3
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 31
08
2008: 64
09
2009: 18
10
2010: 23
11
2011: 20
12
2012: 5
13
2013: 25
14
2014: 25
15
2015: 14
16
2016: 82
17
2017: 56
18
2018: 270
19
2019: 340
20
2020: 322
21
2021: 566
22
2022: 282
23
2023: 313
24
2024: 332
25
2025: 216
26
2026: 41

Related Entities for Saline, Vascular Access Flush

Event Locations

I 1,451 (47.6%)
1,433 (47.0%)
NO INFORMATION 94 (3.1%)
HOSPITAL 57 (1.9%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 6 (0.2%)
OTHER 5 (0.2%)
HOME 4 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare BD MEDICAL (BD WEST) MEDICAL SURGICAL vs BECTON, DICKINSON AND CO. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Saline, Vascular Access Flush, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (3,051 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (22 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Saline, Vascular Access Flush 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 Saline, Vascular Access Flush; 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.