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Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber

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 Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#249 of 1000 · 7,836 reports · 2001–2026

  • BOOK 7,836 reports
  • RANK #249 of 1000
  • DEATH 191 death-typed
  • INJ 2,812 injury-typed
  • MALF 4,715 malfunction
  • SPAN 2001–2026
  • PEAK 2010: 581
  • PHOTO Intracranial Neurovas…

Nearest event-volume peer: Intracranial Neurovascular Stent (4 report gap)

Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber sits #249 of 1000 among tracked device types with 7,836 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber carries 35.9% INJURY-coded reports, 5.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.4% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.9 pp)
  • INJ 35.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+5.6 pp)
  • MALF 60.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-4.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Premature Elective Replacement Indicator is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KG accounts for 71% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .

Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber carries 7,836 MAUDE reports, ranked #249 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 4,715 (60.2%)
Injury 2,812 (35.9%)
Death 191 (2.4%)
Other 108 (1.4%)
10 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Hospitalization 3,831 (46.3%)
2,340 (28.3%)
Required Intervention 1,221 (14.7%)
R 411 (5.0%)
Death 212 (2.6%)
Other 164 (2.0%)
H 69 (0.8%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.2%)
O 6 (0.1%)
L 5 (0.1%)
S 3 (0.0%)
Disability 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Premature Elective Replacement Indicator 1,588
Over-Sensing 955
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 886
Premature End-of-Life Indicator 694
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 564
Failure to Interrogate 461
Explanted 347
High impedance 228
Premature Discharge of Battery 219
Device Displays Incorrect Message 199
Insufficient Device Problem Information 183
Battery Problem 171
Low impedance 152
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 148
Device remains implanted 138
Pacemaker Found in Back-Up Mode 136
Normal 126
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 113
Ambient Noise Problem 107
Defibrillation/Stimulation Problem 103

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 6
02
2002: 5
03
2003: 40
04
2004: 120
05
2005: 92
06
2006: 42
07
2007: 34
08
2008: 77
09
2009: 243
10
2010: 581
11
2011: 458
12
2012: 427
13
2013: 397
14
2014: 320
15
2015: 293
16
2016: 384
17
2017: 415
18
2018: 372
19
2019: 345
20
2020: 316
21
2021: 575
22
2022: 505
23
2023: 551
24
2024: 514
25
2025: 454
26
2026: 270

Reports in 2025 (454) held close to the prior two-year average of 533.

Related Entities for Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber

Event Locations

3,701 (47.2%)
HOSPITAL 2,241 (28.6%)
I 1,725 (22.0%)
HOME 95 (1.2%)
OTHER 41 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 15 (0.2%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 13 (0.2%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KG vs SORIN GROUP ITALIA S.R.L. - CRM FACILITY →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber: 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 (7,836 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (191 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber 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 Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber; 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.