2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Pulse Generator, Pacemaker, Implantable, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-P)

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 Pulse Generator MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#176 of 1000 · 14,494 reports · 2004–2026

  • BOOK 14,494 reports
  • RANK #176 of 1000
  • DEATH 272 death-typed
  • INJ 7,881 injury-typed
  • MALF 6,320 malfunction
  • SPAN 2004–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,956
  • PHOTO Device

Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Vascular, For Promoting Embolization (71 report gap)

Pulse Generator, Pacemaker, Implantable, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-P) sits #176 of 1000 among tracked device types with 14,494 MAUDE reports spanning 2004–2026. 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

Pulse Generator carries 54.4% INJURY-coded reports, 24.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 1.9% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (+0.4 pp)
  • INJ 54.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+24.1 pp)
  • MALF 43.6% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-21.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 44% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Pulse Generator in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Pulse Generator, Pacemaker, Implantable, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-P) carries 14,494 MAUDE reports, ranked #176 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 7,881 (54.4%)
Malfunction 6,320 (43.6%)
Death 272 (1.9%)
Other 19 (0.1%)
2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

5,785 (28.1%)
Hospitalization 4,225 (20.5%)
R 3,739 (18.1%)
Required Intervention 3,317 (16.1%)
H 1,924 (9.3%)
L 764 (3.7%)
Other 323 (1.6%)
Death 265 (1.3%)
Life Threatening 203 (1.0%)
O 55 (0.3%)
D 8 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3,202
Premature Discharge of Battery 2,620
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 1,598
Over-Sensing 1,522
Pacing Problem 1,312
High impedance 912
Failure to Capture 616
Signal Artifact/Noise 598
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 407
Interrogation Problem 381
Defective Device 339
Battery Problem 314
Pacemaker Found in Back-Up Mode 292
Inappropriate or Unexpected Reset 290
Low impedance 256
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 252
Unable to Obtain Readings 241
Data Problem 233
Under-Sensing 231
Use of Device Problem 228

Yearly Trend

04
2004: 9
05
2005: 21
06
2006: 27
07
2007: 37
08
2008: 52
09
2009: 81
10
2010: 169
11
2011: 196
12
2012: 164
13
2013: 207
14
2014: 127
15
2015: 356
16
2016: 514
17
2017: 607
18
2018: 1,004
19
2019: 794
20
2020: 806
21
2021: 1,177
22
2022: 1,290
23
2023: 1,469
24
2024: 1,518
25
2025: 1,956
26
2026: 1,913

Reports in 2025 (1,956) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,494.

Related Entities for Pulse Generator, Pacemaker, Implantable, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-P)

Event Locations

9,452 (65.2%)
I 4,647 (32.1%)
HOSPITAL 268 (1.8%)
OTHER 77 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 19 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (0.1%)
HOME 8 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 3 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 2 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs MEDTRONIC EUROPE SARL →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pulse Generator: 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 (14,494 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (272 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pulse Generator 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 Pulse Generator; 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.