Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate
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 Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#406 of 1000 · 2,895 reports · 2005–2026
- BOOK 2,895 reports
- RANK #406 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 1,301 injury-typed
- MALF 1,495 malfunction
- SPAN 2005–2026
- PEAK 2025: 767
- PHOTO Light Source
Nearest event-volume peer: Light Source, Fiberoptic, Routine (10 report gap)
Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate sits #406 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,895 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. 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 44.9% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+14.5 pp)
- MALF 51.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-12.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Integrity Problem is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 76% of location-tagged rows .
Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, Photopheresis, Extracorporeal
2,915 reports
- Adaptor
Adaptor, Hygiene
2,907 reports
- Syringe
Syringe, Antistick
2,905 reports
- Prosthesis (this)
Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate
2,895 reports
- Light Source
Light Source, Fiberoptic, Routine
2,885 reports
- Endoscopic Ti…
Endoscopic Tissue Approximation Device
2,878 reports
What this shows Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate carries 2,895 MAUDE reports, ranked #406 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 Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate, 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 (2,895 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate 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 Prosthesis, Spinous Process Spacer/Plate; 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.