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Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable

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 Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#39 of 1000 · 92,723 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 92,723 reports
  • RANK #39 of 1000
  • DEATH 3,860 death-typed
  • INJ 48,343 injury-typed
  • MALF 40,319 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 8,538
  • PHOTO Bed

Nearest event-volume peer: Bed, Ac-Powered Adjustable Hospital (334 report gap)

Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable sits #39 of 1000 among tracked device types with 92,723 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 4.2% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+2.6 pp)
  • INJ 52.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+21.7 pp)
  • MALF 43.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-21.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.(CRM-SYLMAR) accounts for 21% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .

Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable carries 92,723 MAUDE reports, ranked #39 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 48,343 (52.1%)
Malfunction 40,319 (43.5%)
Death 3,860 (4.2%)
Other 139 (0.1%)
62 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

33,383 (27.4%)
Hospitalization 26,473 (21.7%)
R 21,125 (17.3%)
Required Intervention 20,907 (17.2%)
Other 5,658 (4.6%)
H 4,491 (3.7%)
Death 3,839 (3.2%)
L 3,111 (2.6%)
Life Threatening 2,322 (1.9%)
O 425 (0.3%)
D 48 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 18 (0.0%)
S 16 (0.0%)
Disability 3 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 15,385
Premature Discharge of Battery 7,777
Pacing Problem 7,043
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 5,311
Over-Sensing 4,270
Battery Problem 3,884
Failure to Interrogate 3,377
Mechanical Problem 2,741
Inappropriate or Unexpected Reset 1,588
Failure to Capture 1,478
Unable to Obtain Readings 1,396
Incorrect Measurement 1,203
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 1,200
Defective Device 1,164
Pacemaker Found in Back-Up Mode 1,108
Signal Artifact/Noise 1,013
False Alarm 905
Under-Sensing 899
Communication or Transmission Problem 888
Overheating of Device 883

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 4
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 10
06
2006: 38
07
2007: 85
08
2008: 142
09
2009: 245
10
2010: 4,039
11
2011: 6,334
12
2012: 5,562
13
2013: 4,033
14
2014: 3,107
15
2015: 2,773
16
2016: 2,558
17
2017: 3,164
18
2018: 5,878
19
2019: 8,188
20
2020: 8,337
21
2021: 8,538
22
2022: 7,791
23
2023: 8,463
24
2024: 6,496
25
2025: 6,060
26
2026: 870

Related Entities for Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable

Event Locations

45,124 (48.7%)
I 36,887 (39.8%)
HOSPITAL 9,896 (10.7%)
HOME 483 (0.5%)
OTHER 132 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 110 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 52 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 11 (0.0%)
PATIENT'S HOME 9 (0.0%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 5 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 3 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 2 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY HEALTH CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
PUBLIC BUILDING 1 (0.0%)
URGENT CARE CENTER 1 (0.0%)

Compare ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.(CRM-SYLMAR) vs MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable, 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 (92,723 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3,860 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pulse Generator, Permanent, Implantable 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, Permanent, Implantable; 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.