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Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular

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 Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#354 of 1000 · 3,824 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 3,824 reports
  • RANK #354 of 1000
  • DEATH 24 death-typed
  • INJ 248 injury-typed
  • MALF 3,418 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2008: 531
  • PHOTO Analyzer

Nearest event-volume peer: Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function (11 report gap)

Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular sits #354 of 1000 among tracked device types with 3,824 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
  • INJ 6.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-24.0 pp)
  • MALF 89.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+24.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES accounts for 37% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular carries 3,824 MAUDE reports, ranked #354 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 3,418 (89.4%)
Injury 248 (6.5%)
Other 98 (2.6%)
36 (0.9%)
Death 24 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,973 (76.4%)
Other 607 (15.6%)
Required Intervention 147 (3.8%)
Life Threatening 55 (1.4%)
R 49 (1.3%)
Death 21 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 15 (0.4%)
Disability 8 (0.2%)
O 6 (0.2%)
L 5 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 210
Material Separation 166
Disconnection 101
Leak/Splash 96
Break 78
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 75
Detachment Of Device Component 48
Crack 34
Air/Gas in Device 32
Incorrect Measurement 29
No Flow 29
Separation Failure 29
Separation Problem 29
Detachment of Device or Device Component 26
Inaccurate Information 23
High Readings 15
Unable to Obtain Readings 15
Pressure Problem 13
Air Leak 10
Connection Problem 10

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 3
94
1994: 11
95
1995: 20
96
1996: 33
97
1997: 188
98
1998: 110
99
1999: 81
00
2000: 75
01
2001: 72
02
2002: 73
03
2003: 101
04
2004: 137
05
2005: 85
06
2006: 79
07
2007: 397
08
2008: 531
09
2009: 344
10
2010: 115
11
2011: 63
12
2012: 43
13
2013: 39
14
2014: 23
15
2015: 60
16
2016: 89
17
2017: 92
18
2018: 82
19
2019: 84
20
2020: 41
21
2021: 93
22
2022: 95
23
2023: 147
24
2024: 205
25
2025: 191
26
2026: 22

Related Entities for Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular

Top Manufacturers

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 708
ICU MEDICAL DE MEXICO, S. DE R.L. DE C.V. 636
ABBOTT LABORATORIES 254
ICU MEDICAL, INC. 200
SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 130

Event Locations

2,016 (52.7%)
HOSPITAL 1,215 (31.8%)
I 455 (11.9%)
INVALID DATA 92 (2.4%)
NO INFORMATION 19 (0.5%)
OTHER 14 (0.4%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 5 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES vs ICU MEDICAL DE MEXICO, S. DE R.L. DE C.V. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular, 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 (3,824 here).

Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function 3,813 Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained 3,870 Ultrasound Bronchoscope 3,881 Suture, Nonabsorbable, Silk 3,765

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (24 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus, Suction, Patient Care 24 Catheter, Oximeter, Fiber-Optic 24 Chair, Positioning, Electric 24 Laparoscope, Gynecologic 24

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular 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 Transducer, Blood-Pressure, Extravascular; 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.