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Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip

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, Pressure, Catheter Tip LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#453 of 1000 · 2,277 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,277 reports
  • RANK #453 of 1000
  • DEATH 19 death-typed
  • INJ 405 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,837 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 197
  • PHOTO Electrode Measurement

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrode Measurement, Blood-Gases (Pco2, Po2) And Blood Ph (10 report gap)

Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip sits #453 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,277 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 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 17.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-12.7 pp)
  • MALF 80.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+16.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 41% of location-tagged rows .

Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip carries 2,277 MAUDE reports, ranked #453 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,837 (80.7%)
Injury 405 (17.8%)
Death 19 (0.8%)
11 (0.5%)
Other 5 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,827 (77.8%)
Required Intervention 260 (11.1%)
Other 117 (5.0%)
R 47 (2.0%)
Hospitalization 42 (1.8%)
Death 19 (0.8%)
O 18 (0.8%)
H 6 (0.3%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.3%)
Disability 4 (0.2%)
L 2 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 306
Detachment of Device or Device Component 254
Break 119
Communication or Transmission Problem 116
Material Separation 107
Fracture 105
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 96
Incorrect Measurement 82
Contamination 64
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 63
Detachment Of Device Component 60
Difficult to Remove 60
Leak/Splash 56
Failure to Advance 55
Material Fragmentation 45
Fluid/Blood Leak 41
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 35
Difficult to Advance 33
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 29
Failure to Zero 26

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
99
1999: 3
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 1
07
2007: 3
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 8
10
2010: 74
11
2011: 111
12
2012: 82
13
2013: 93
14
2014: 85
15
2015: 114
16
2016: 152
17
2017: 186
18
2018: 179
19
2019: 153
20
2020: 158
21
2021: 116
22
2022: 144
23
2023: 194
24
2024: 197
25
2025: 183
26
2026: 35

Related Entities for Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 254
ABBOTT VASCULAR 122
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MAPLE GROVE 88
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES 67
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES LLC 51

Event Locations

935 (41.1%)
I 908 (39.9%)
HOSPITAL 420 (18.4%)
NO INFORMATION 9 (0.4%)
OTHER 3 (0.1%)
HOSPICE 1 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs ABBOTT VASCULAR →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip, 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 (2,277 here).

Electrode Measurement 2,287 Circuit, Breathing 2,298 Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrate… 2,302 Iliac Covered Stent, Arterial 2,308

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (19 here), distinct from the volume row.

Electrode, Electrosurgical 19 Pacemaker, Cardiac, External Transcutaneous 19 Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, 19 Sleeve, Limb, Compressible 19

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Transducer, Pressure, Catheter Tip 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, Pressure, Catheter Tip; 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.