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Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief

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 Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re… MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#139 of 1000 · 18,878 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 18,878 reports
  • RANK #139 of 1000
  • DEATH 31 death-typed
  • INJ 18,612 injury-typed
  • MALF 233 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 2,550
  • PHOTO Orthopedic Stereotaxi…

Nearest event-volume peer: Orthopedic Stereotaxic Instrument (289 report gap)

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief sits #139 of 1000 among tracked device types with 18,878 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 98.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+68.2 pp)
  • MALF 1.2% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ABBOTT MEDICAL accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re… in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief carries 18,878 MAUDE reports, ranked #139 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 18,612 (98.6%)
Malfunction 233 (1.2%)
Death 31 (0.2%)
Other 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 18,199 (95.3%)
321 (1.7%)
Hospitalization 256 (1.3%)
O 189 (1.0%)
H 47 (0.2%)
Death 29 (0.2%)
R 15 (0.1%)
Required Intervention 14 (0.1%)
S 7 (0.0%)
Disability 5 (0.0%)
L 3 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 5,906
Migration 4,340
High impedance 2,520
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 2,211
Fracture 1,813
Impedance Problem 424
Use of Device Problem 395
Insufficient Information 372
Material Fragmentation 357
Wireless Communication Problem 316
Battery Problem 245
Low impedance 170
Disconnection 169
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 134
Patient-Device Incompatibility 120
Failure to Deliver Energy 78
No Apparent Adverse Event 77
Break 68
Premature Elective Replacement Indicator 61
No Device Output 45

Yearly Trend

16
2016: 286
17
2017: 1,141
18
2018: 2,136
19
2019: 2,550
20
2020: 2,323
21
2021: 2,304
22
2022: 1,956
23
2023: 1,823
24
2024: 2,074
25
2025: 1,984
26
2026: 301

Related Entities for Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief

Event Locations

I 10,127 (53.6%)
8,729 (46.2%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (0.1%)
HOSPITAL 5 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
OTHER 2 (0.0%)

Compare ABBOTT MEDICAL vs ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re…, 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 (18,878 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (31 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re… 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 Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re…; 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.