What are FDA adverse event reports for Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer, there are 13,718 total reports including 20 death reports and 347 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer

Name: Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#177 of 1000 · 13,718 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 13,718 reports
RANK #177 of 1000
DEATH 20 death-typed
INJ 347 injury-typed
MALF 13,188 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2022: 1,834
PHOTO Excimer Laser System

Nearest event-volume peer: Excimer Laser System (17 report gap)

Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer sits #177 of 1000 among tracked device types with 13,718 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 →

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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
INJ 2.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.9 pp)
MALF 96.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+31.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 53% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Lift

13,786
Excimer Laser…

13,735
Set (this)

13,718
Device

13,654
Lens

13,624
Oximeter

13,424

What this shows Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer carries 13,718 MAUDE reports, ranked #177 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 13,188 (96.1%)

Injury 347 (2.5%)

90 (0.7%)

Other 72 (0.5%)

Death 20 (0.1%)

No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

12,896 (94.5%)

Other 467 (3.4%)

Required Intervention 112 (0.8%)

Hospitalization 49 (0.4%)

Life Threatening 34 (0.2%)

R 32 (0.2%)

Death 20 (0.1%)

L 9 (0.1%)

O 9 (0.1%)

Disability 9 (0.1%)

S 3 (0.0%)

Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)

Invalid Data 2 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 3

1993: 9

1994: 50

1995: 10

1996: 107

1997: 198

1998: 42

1999: 20

2000: 36

2001: 19

2002: 33

2003: 44

2004: 48

2005: 15

2006: 11

2007: 18

2008: 27

2009: 37

2010: 49

2011: 155

2012: 529

2013: 154

2014: 155

2015: 128

2016: 219

2017: 536

2018: 1,499

2019: 1,634

2020: 1,171

2021: 933

2022: 1,834

2023: 1,047

2024: 1,270

2025: 1,356

2026: 322

Top Manufacturers

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 5,959

SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 1,308

BAXTER HEALTHCARE - MALTA 660

BAXTER HEALTHCARE - CLEVELAND 509

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP. 362

B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC. 287

BECTON DICKINSON, S.A. 197

Event Locations

7,234 (52.7%)

I 5,419 (39.5%)

NO INFORMATION 443 (3.2%)

HOSPITAL 410 (3.0%)

OTHER 104 (0.8%)

INVALID DATA 31 (0.2%)

UNKNOWN 30 (0.2%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 25 (0.2%)

HOME 21 (0.2%)

NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION vs SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer, 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 (13,718 here).

Excimer Laser System 13,735 Device, Vascular, For Promoting Embolization 13,654 Lift, Patient, Non-Ac-Powered 13,786 Lens, Multifocal Intraocular 13,624

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (20 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accelerator, Linear, Medical 20 Apparatus 20 Endoscopic Access Overtube 20 System 20

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer 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 Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer; 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.

Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer

Event-type mix vs corpus