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Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic

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 Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#773 of 1000 · 674 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 674 reports
  • RANK #773 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 246 injury-typed
  • MALF 415 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 78
  • PHOTO Gastrointestinal Tube…

Nearest event-volume peer: Gastrointestinal Tubes With Enteral Specific Connectors (0 report gap)

Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic sits #773 of 1000 among tracked device types with 674 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 36.5% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+6.1 pp)
  • MALF 61.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-2.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) accounts for 49% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic carries 674 MAUDE reports, ranked #773 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 415 (61.6%)
Injury 246 (36.5%)
7 (1.0%)
Death 5 (0.7%)
Other 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

405 (58.0%)
Required Intervention 166 (23.8%)
Other 76 (10.9%)
R 18 (2.6%)
Hospitalization 18 (2.6%)
Invalid Data 5 (0.7%)
O 4 (0.6%)
Death 4 (0.6%)
L 2 (0.3%)

Top Product Problems

Break 77
Detachment of Device or Device Component 34
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 25
Difficult to Remove 24
Material Separation 16
Defective Device 14
Detachment Of Device Component 12
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 11
Entrapment of Device 11
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 7
Material Deformation 7
Occlusion Within Device 7
Fracture 6
Obstruction of Flow 6
Device Packaging Compromised 5
Device-Device Incompatibility 5
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 4
Difficult to Advance 4
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 4
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 27
93
1993: 18
94
1994: 9
95
1995: 1
98
1998: 4
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 2
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 24
09
2009: 36
10
2010: 47
11
2011: 49
12
2012: 33
13
2013: 41
14
2014: 48
15
2015: 78
16
2016: 51
17
2017: 29
18
2018: 35
19
2019: 26
20
2020: 14
21
2021: 24
22
2022: 17
23
2023: 12
24
2024: 13
25
2025: 27
26
2026: 3

Related Entities for Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) 293
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 196
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER 82
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC 15
UNKNOWN 4
ABBOTT LABORATORIES 3

Event Locations

401 (59.5%)
I 194 (28.8%)
HOSPITAL 67 (9.9%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.9%)
NO INFORMATION 3 (0.4%)
HOME 2 (0.3%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - COSTA RICA (COYOL) vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic, 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 (674 here).

Gastrointestinal Tubes With Enteral Specifi… 674 Needle, Dental 674 Stimulator, Muscle, Powered 673 Surgeon'S Gloves 676

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic 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 Tube, Drainage, Suprapubic; 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.