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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

#143 of 1000 · 19,735 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 19,735 reports
  • RANK #143 of 1000
  • DEATH 32 death-typed
  • INJ 19,457 injury-typed
  • MALF 243 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 2,549
  • PHOTO Suture

Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polypropylene (49 report gap)

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief sits #143 of 1000 among tracked device types with 19,735 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re… carries 98.6% INJURY-coded reports, 68.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 98.6% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+68.3 pp)
  • MALF 1.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-63.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ABBOTT MEDICAL accounts for 66% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 51% 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 19,735 MAUDE reports, ranked #143 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 19,457 (98.6%)
Malfunction 243 (1.2%)
Death 32 (0.2%)
Other 3 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 18,805 (95.4%)
333 (1.7%)
Hospitalization 258 (1.3%)
O 189 (1.0%)
H 52 (0.3%)
Death 29 (0.1%)
R 15 (0.1%)
Required Intervention 14 (0.1%)
S 9 (0.0%)
Disability 8 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)
L 3 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 6,004
Migration 4,589
High impedance 2,661
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 2,307
Fracture 1,913
Impedance Problem 447
Use of Device Problem 433
Insufficient Device Problem Information 411
Material Fragmentation 376
Wireless Communication Problem 335
Battery Problem 247
Disconnection 174
Low impedance 174
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 145
Patient-Device Incompatibility 124
No Apparent Adverse Event 86
Failure to Deliver Energy 79
Break 72
Premature Elective Replacement Indicator 61
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 45

Yearly Trend

16
2016: 286
17
2017: 1,141
18
2018: 2,136
19
2019: 2,549
20
2020: 2,323
21
2021: 2,304
22
2022: 1,956
23
2023: 1,824
24
2024: 2,075
25
2025: 1,985
26
2026: 1,156

Reports in 2025 (1,985) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,950.

Related Entities for Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Relief

Event Locations

I 10,124 (51.3%)
9,589 (48.6%)
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 a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator For Pain Re…: 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 (19,735 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (32 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.