Implant, Hearing, Active, Middle Ear, Partially Implanted
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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#585 of 1000 · 1,298 reports · 2001–2026
- BOOK 1,298 reports
- RANK #585 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 781 injury-typed
- MALF 491 malfunction
- SPAN 2001–2026
- PEAK 2013: 129
- PHOTO Catheter For Crossing…
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter For Crossing Total Occlusions (5 report gap)
Implant, Hearing, Active, Middle Ear, Partially Implanted sits #585 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,298 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 →
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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 60.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+29.7 pp)
- MALF 37.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-26.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Output Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MED-EL ELEKTROMEDIZINISCHE GERAETE GMBH accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 72% of location-tagged rows .
Implant in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Stent
Stent, Colonic, Metallic, Expandable
1,307 reports
- Implant (this)
Implant, Hearing, Active, Middle Ear, Partially Implanted
1,298 reports
- Catheter For…
Catheter For Crossing Total Occlusions
1,293 reports
- Intrauterine…
Intrauterine Tamponade Balloon
1,286 reports
- Endoscopic Ac…
Endoscopic Access Overtube, Gastroenterology-Urology
1,276 reports
- Disinfector
Disinfector, Medical Devices
1,272 reports
What this shows Implant, Hearing, Active, Middle Ear, Partially Implanted carries 1,298 MAUDE reports, ranked #585 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
Related Entities for Implant, Hearing, Active, Middle Ear, Partially Implanted
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MED-EL ELEKTROMEDIZINISCHE GERAETE GMBH vs MED-EL ELEKTROMEDIZINISCHE GERAETE, GMBH →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Implant, 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 (1,298 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Implant 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; 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.