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Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection

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 Tubes MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#72 of 1000 · 46,222 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 46,222 reports
  • RANK #72 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 1,251 injury-typed
  • MALF 44,672 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 9,731
  • PHOTO Ventilator

Nearest event-volume peer: Ventilator, Continuous, Minimal Ventilatory Support, Facility Use (468 report gap)

Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection sits #72 of 1000 among tracked device types with 46,222 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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 2.7% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.7 pp)
  • MALF 96.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+32.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Short Fill is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY (BD) accounts for 36% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Tubes in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection carries 46,222 MAUDE reports, ranked #72 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 44,672 (96.6%)
Injury 1,251 (2.7%)
Other 260 (0.6%)
35 (0.1%)
Death 3 (0.0%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

24,074 (52.1%)
Other 21,374 (46.3%)
Required Intervention 611 (1.3%)
Hospitalization 37 (0.1%)
R 34 (0.1%)
O 24 (0.1%)
Death 15 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 11 (0.0%)
Disability 5 (0.0%)
L 3 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Short Fill 7,032
Leak/Splash 6,362
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 6,331
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 5,177
Volume Accuracy Problem 2,853
Incorrect Or Inadequate Test Results 2,359
Device Ingredient or Reagent Problem 2,317
Fluid/Blood Leak 2,078
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 1,818
Overfill 1,573
Coagulation in Device or Device Ingredient 1,549
Material Deformation 1,521
Break 1,026
Product Quality Problem 924
Separation Problem 760
Difficult to Insert 682
Component Missing 567
Difficult or Delayed Activation 538
Crack 462
Improper Chemical Reaction 330

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 15
95
1995: 16
96
1996: 62
97
1997: 56
98
1998: 94
99
1999: 78
00
2000: 93
01
2001: 58
02
2002: 73
03
2003: 24
04
2004: 38
05
2005: 40
06
2006: 37
07
2007: 73
08
2008: 78
09
2009: 42
10
2010: 37
11
2011: 67
12
2012: 54
13
2013: 33
14
2014: 68
15
2015: 41
16
2016: 65
17
2017: 2,039
18
2018: 9,731
19
2019: 6,469
20
2020: 3,774
21
2021: 3,610
22
2022: 3,375
23
2023: 4,400
24
2024: 4,610
25
2025: 6,140
26
2026: 830

Related Entities for Tubes, Vials, Systems, Serum Separators, Blood Collection

Top Manufacturers

BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY (BD) 14,691
BECTON, DICKINSON & CO., (BD) 9,410
BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. (BROKEN BOW) 7,857
BECTON, DICKINSON & CO. 4,292
BECTON DICKINSON 3,379
SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 471
BECTON DICKINSON INFUSION THERAPY SYSTEMS INC. 333

Event Locations

I 24,751 (53.5%)
20,425 (44.2%)
HOSPITAL 660 (1.4%)
OTHER 170 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 46 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 44 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 34 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 33 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 27 (0.1%)
HOME 11 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 6 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 4 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
DIALYSIS CENTER 2 (0.0%)
LABORATORY 2 (0.0%)
BLOOD BANK 1 (0.0%)

Compare BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY (BD) vs BECTON, DICKINSON & CO., (BD) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tubes, 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 (46,222 here).

Ventilator 45,754 Catheter 47,084 Interventional Fluoroscopic X-Ray System 47,993 Gas-Machine, Anesthesia 44,393

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tubes 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 Tubes; 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.