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Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument

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 Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#79 of 1000 · 42,097 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 42,097 reports
  • RANK #79 of 1000
  • DEATH 101 death-typed
  • INJ 2,886 injury-typed
  • MALF 38,848 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 6,062
  • PHOTO Dialyzer

Nearest event-volume peer: Dialyzer, High Permeability With Or Without Sealed Dialysate System (433 report gap)

Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument sits #79 of 1000 among tracked device types with 42,097 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 6.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.6 pp)
  • MALF 92.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+27.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Mechanical Problem is 11% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC accounts for 56% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument carries 42,097 MAUDE reports, ranked #79 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 38,848 (92.3%)
Injury 2,886 (6.9%)
Other 134 (0.3%)
128 (0.3%)
Death 101 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

38,484 (91.2%)
Required Intervention 1,556 (3.7%)
Other 1,312 (3.1%)
R 205 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 185 (0.4%)
Death 106 (0.3%)
O 86 (0.2%)
Disability 74 (0.2%)
S 63 (0.1%)
H 46 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 46 (0.1%)
L 11 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 6 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Mechanical Problem 4,406
Imprecision 4,233
Application Program Freezes, Becomes Nonfunctional 3,143
Human-Device Interface Problem 2,998
Application Program Problem 2,594
Communication or Transmission Problem 2,511
Device Sensing Problem 2,454
Material Integrity Problem 2,235
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 2,200
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1,817
Computer Software Problem 1,677
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 1,487
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,378
Environmental Compatibility Problem 1,317
Application Interface Becomes Non-Functional Or Program Exits Abnormally 968
Use of Device Problem 906
Output Problem 728
Connection Problem 694
Device Stops Intermittently 597
Material Deformation 559

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
96
1996: 3
97
1997: 12
98
1998: 5
99
1999: 4
00
2000: 6
01
2001: 6
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 7
04
2004: 12
05
2005: 22
06
2006: 32
07
2007: 49
08
2008: 53
09
2009: 96
10
2010: 299
11
2011: 1,725
12
2012: 986
13
2013: 1,290
14
2014: 1,606
15
2015: 1,767
16
2016: 1,829
17
2017: 3,502
18
2018: 4,439
19
2019: 6,062
20
2020: 3,480
21
2021: 2,827
22
2022: 1,929
23
2023: 2,510
24
2024: 3,755
25
2025: 3,484
26
2026: 292

Related Entities for Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument

Top Manufacturers

MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC 21,071
MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC. 7,416
MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC. (LOUISVILLE) 7,032
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 1,670
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 225

Event Locations

I 22,702 (53.9%)
19,157 (45.5%)
HOSPITAL 137 (0.3%)
OTHER 50 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 30 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 9 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC vs MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument, 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 (42,097 here).

Dialyzer 42,530 Powered Laser Surgical Instrument 42,730 Clip, Implantable 41,375 Catheters 42,925

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (101 here), distinct from the volume row.

Mesh 100 Stretcher, Wheeled 102 Catheter, Intravascular Occluding, Temporary 99 Interventional Fluoroscopic X-Ray System 99

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument 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 Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument; 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.