2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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

#181 of 1000 · 13,091 reports · 2004–2026

  • BOOK 13,091 reports
  • RANK #181 of 1000
  • DEATH 266 death-typed
  • INJ 7,230 injury-typed
  • MALF 5,574 malfunction
  • SPAN 2004–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,957
  • PHOTO Bone Cement

Nearest event-volume peer: Bone Cement (52 report gap)

Pulse Generator, Pacemaker, Implantable, With Cardiac Resynchronization (Crt-P) sits #181 of 1000 among tracked device types with 13,091 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 →

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 2.0% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.5 pp)
  • INJ 55.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+24.8 pp)
  • MALF 42.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-21.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% 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 13,091 MAUDE reports, ranked #181 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 7,230 (55.2%)
Malfunction 5,574 (42.6%)
Death 266 (2.0%)
Other 19 (0.1%)
2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

5,164 (27.1%)
Hospitalization 4,012 (21.0%)
R 3,531 (18.5%)
Required Intervention 3,082 (16.1%)
H 1,716 (9.0%)
L 757 (4.0%)
Other 313 (1.6%)
Death 259 (1.4%)
Life Threatening 191 (1.0%)
O 48 (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 2,926
Premature Discharge of Battery 1,798
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 1,514
Over-Sensing 1,324
Pacing Problem 1,123
High impedance 768
Signal Artifact/Noise 543
Failure to Capture 454
Defective Device 339
Inappropriate or Unexpected Reset 285
Battery Problem 279
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 247
Unable to Obtain Readings 239
Interrogation Problem 237
Low impedance 235
Pacemaker Found in Back-Up Mode 200
Mechanical Problem 198
Under-Sensing 190
High Capture Threshold 183
Data Problem 177

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: 1,957
26
2026: 509

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

Event Locations

8,050 (61.5%)
I 4,648 (35.5%)
HOSPITAL 268 (2.0%)
OTHER 75 (0.6%)
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 similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pulse Generator, 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 (13,091 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (266 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.