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Tubing, Fluid Delivery

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 Tubing, Fluid Delivery LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#699 of 1000 · 842 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 842 reports
  • RANK #699 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 33 injury-typed
  • MALF 790 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2011: 112
  • PHOTO Plate

Nearest event-volume peer: Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable (0 report gap)

Tubing, Fluid Delivery sits #699 of 1000 among tracked device types with 842 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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
  • INJ 3.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-26.5 pp)
  • MALF 93.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Fluid/Blood Leak is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 84% of location-tagged rows .

Tubing, Fluid Delivery in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tubing, Fluid Delivery carries 842 MAUDE reports, ranked #699 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 790 (93.8%)
Injury 33 (3.9%)
Other 10 (1.2%)
Death 5 (0.6%)
4 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

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

700 (82.0%)
Other 78 (9.1%)
Required Intervention 51 (6.0%)
R 7 (0.8%)
Death 5 (0.6%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.4%)
O 2 (0.2%)
H 1 (0.1%)
L 1 (0.1%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Fluid/Blood Leak 35
Leak/Splash 25
Break 24
Disconnection 14
Defective Component 11
No Flow 11
Detachment of Device or Device Component 8
Suction Failure 8
Crack 6
Material Separation 6
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 4
Hole In Material 4
Loose or Intermittent Connection 4
Defective Device 3
Device Packaging Compromised 3
No Apparent Adverse Event 3
Tear, Rip or Hole in Device Packaging 3
Complete Blockage 2
Detachment Of Device Component 2

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 4
93
1993: 1
96
1996: 1
00
2000: 19
01
2001: 38
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 15
04
2004: 13
05
2005: 41
06
2006: 13
07
2007: 29
08
2008: 78
09
2009: 92
10
2010: 67
11
2011: 112
12
2012: 107
13
2013: 29
14
2014: 31
15
2015: 15
16
2016: 12
17
2017: 15
18
2018: 9
19
2019: 10
20
2020: 4
21
2021: 8
22
2022: 7
23
2023: 15
24
2024: 8
25
2025: 30
26
2026: 17

Related Entities for Tubing, Fluid Delivery

Top Manufacturers

MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 93
HOSPIRA COSTA RICA LTD. 64
SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC. 28

Event Locations

711 (84.4%)
HOSPITAL 61 (7.2%)
I 53 (6.3%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (0.8%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 5 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 3 (0.4%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.1%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. vs HOSPIRA COSTA RICA LTD. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tubing, Fluid Delivery, 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 (842 here).

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable 842 Vitrectomy, Instrument Cutter 842 Device, Endoscopic Suturing 843 Probe, Radiofrequency Lesion 844

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 Tubing, Fluid Delivery 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 Tubing, Fluid Delivery; 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.