Stylet, Catheter
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 Stylet, Catheter LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#603 of 1000 · 1,212 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,212 reports
- RANK #603 of 1000
- DEATH 69 death-typed
- INJ 954 injury-typed
- MALF 185 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 154
- PHOTO Lamp, Surgical
Nearest event-volume peer: Lamp, Surgical (5 report gap)
Stylet, Catheter sits #603 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,212 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 5.7% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.2 pp)
- INJ 78.7% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+48.3 pp)
- MALF 15.3% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-49.2 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 61% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC, INC. accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .
Stylet, Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Hemodialyzer
Hemodialyzer, Re-Use, High Flux
1,219 reports
- Stylet (this)
Stylet, Catheter
1,212 reports
- Lamp, Surgical
Lamp, Surgical
1,207 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Blood Circuit, Hemodialysis
1,203 reports
- Tube, Feeding
Tube, Feeding
1,203 reports
- System/Device
System/Device, Pharmacy Compounding
1,201 reports
What this shows Stylet, Catheter carries 1,212 MAUDE reports, ranked #603 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 Stylet, Catheter
Top Manufacturers
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Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stylet, Catheter, 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 (1,212 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (69 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stylet, Catheter 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 Stylet, Catheter; 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.