Wire, Guide, Catheter
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Wire, Guide, Catheter MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#99 of 1000 · 32,823 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 32,823 reports
- RANK #99 of 1000
- DEATH 895 death-typed
- INJ 12,773 injury-typed
- MALF 18,855 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2024: 2,210
- PHOTO Pump
Nearest event-volume peer: Pump, Infusion, Elastomeric (2 report gap)
Wire, Guide, Catheter sits #99 of 1000 among tracked device types with 32,823 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 2.7% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.2 pp)
- INJ 38.9% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+8.5 pp)
- MALF 57.4% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-7.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Separation is 11% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AV-TEMECULA-CT accounts for 24% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Wire, Guide, Catheter in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Detector And…
Detector And Alarm, Arrhythmia
33,206 reports
- Pump
Pump, Infusion, Elastomeric
32,825 reports
- Wire (this)
Wire, Guide, Catheter
32,823 reports
- Stents
Stents, Drains And Dilators For The Biliary Ducts
32,811 reports
- Protector
Protector, Ostomy
32,138 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Ceramic/Polymer, Cemented Or Non-Porous, Uncemented
31,425 reports
What this shows Wire, Guide, Catheter carries 32,823 MAUDE reports, ranked #99 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Related Entities for Wire, Guide, Catheter
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wire, Guide, Catheter, 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 (32,823 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (895 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wire, Guide, Catheter 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 Wire, Guide, Catheter; 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.