Implant, Cochlear
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 Implant, Cochlear MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#51 of 1000 · 75,024 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 75,024 reports
- RANK #51 of 1000
- DEATH 68 death-typed
- INJ 42,079 injury-typed
- MALF 32,407 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2023: 5,727
- PHOTO Transcervical Contrac…
Nearest event-volume peer: Transcervical Contraceptive Tubal Occlusion Device (522 report gap)
Implant, Cochlear sits #51 of 1000 among tracked device types with 75,024 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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
Implant, Cochlear carries 56.1% INJURY-coded reports, 25.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 56.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+25.8 pp)
- MALF 43.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-21.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ADVANCED BIONICS, LLC accounts for 23% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 67% of location-tagged rows .
Implant, Cochlear in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Aortic Valve
Aortic Valve, Prosthesis, Percutaneously Delivered
78,144 reports
- Implant (this)
Implant, Cochlear
75,024 reports
- Transcervical…
Transcervical Contraceptive Tubal Occlusion Device
74,502 reports
- Glucose Dehyd…
Glucose Dehydrogenase, Glucose
74,205 reports
- Gastroscope A…
Gastroscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid
73,278 reports
- Set
Set, Administration, For Peritoneal Dialysis, Disposable
72,142 reports
What this shows Implant, Cochlear carries 75,024 MAUDE reports, ranked #51 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 in 2025 (5,511) held close to the prior two-year average of 5,665.
Related Entities for Implant, Cochlear
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Implant, Cochlear: 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 (75,024 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (68 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Implant, Cochlear 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 Implant, Cochlear; 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.