Charger, Pacemaker
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 Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §870.3670 (Cardiovascular panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Charger, Pacemaker LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#813 of 1000 · 626 reports · 1997–2002
- BOOK 626 reports
- RANK #813 of 1000
- DEATH 22 death-typed
- INJ 1 injury-typed
- MALF 602 malfunction
- SPAN 1997–2002
- PEAK 2000: 392
- PHOTO Nebulizer
Nearest event-volume peer: Nebulizer, Medicinal, Non-Ventilatory (Atomizer) (3 report gap)
Charger, Pacemaker sits #813 of 1000 among tracked device types with 626 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2002. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Charger, Pacemaker carries 96.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 3.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.0 pp)
- INJ 0.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-30.1 pp)
- MALF 96.2% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Device Displays Incorrect Message is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ZOLL MEDICAL CORP. accounts for 74% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 99% of location-tagged rows .
Charger, Pacemaker in the event-volume neighbourhood
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What this shows Charger, Pacemaker carries 626 MAUDE reports, ranked #813 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
Reports fell to 1 in 2001, down from an average of 300 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Charger, Pacemaker
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Charger, Pacemaker: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (626 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (22 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Charger, Pacemaker 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 Charger, Pacemaker; 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.