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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
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
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Hypoglossal Nerve, Implanted, Apnea
3,075 reports
- Ventilator
Ventilator, High Frequency
3,062 reports
- Accelerator
Accelerator, Linear, Medical
3,052 reports
- Saline (this)
Saline, Vascular Access Flush
3,051 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Esophageal
3,051 reports
- Active Implan…
Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing System
3,021 reports
What this shows Saline, Vascular Access Flush carries 3,051 MAUDE reports, ranked #389 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
Related Entities for Saline, Vascular Access Flush
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.