2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection)

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 Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#205 of 1000 · 10,606 reports · 2001–2026

  • BOOK 10,606 reports
  • RANK #205 of 1000
  • DEATH 19 death-typed
  • INJ 1,472 injury-typed
  • MALF 9,112 malfunction
  • SPAN 2001–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 1,819
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, Hemodynamic, Implantable (186 report gap)

Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection) sits #205 of 1000 among tracked device types with 10,606 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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 13.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.6 pp)
  • MALF 85.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Under-Sensing is 40% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.(CRM-SYLMAR) accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection) carries 10,606 MAUDE reports, ranked #205 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 9,112 (85.9%)
Injury 1,472 (13.9%)
Death 19 (0.2%)
2 (0.0%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,055 (83.9%)
Required Intervention 1,264 (11.7%)
R 183 (1.7%)
Hospitalization 178 (1.7%)
Other 72 (0.7%)
Death 19 (0.2%)
O 9 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 4 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Under-Sensing 4,247
Failure to Interrogate 1,261
Over-Sensing 1,210
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 489
Data Problem 470
Premature Discharge of Battery 453
Signal Artifact/Noise 390
Incorrect Measurement 373
Failure to Sense 238
Inappropriate or Unexpected Reset 215
Device Sensing Problem 166
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 162
Interrogation Problem 158
Wireless Communication Problem 131
Migration or Expulsion of Device 119
Incorrect Interpretation of Signal 118
Communication or Transmission Problem 102
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 81
Sensing Intermittently 76
Detachment of Device or Device Component 58

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 1
02
2002: 5
04
2004: 1
08
2008: 3
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 14
11
2011: 21
12
2012: 30
13
2013: 144
14
2014: 598
15
2015: 235
16
2016: 194
17
2017: 226
18
2018: 1,819
19
2019: 1,593
20
2020: 1,100
21
2021: 832
22
2022: 628
23
2023: 828
24
2024: 975
25
2025: 1,123
26
2026: 224

Related Entities for Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, (Without Arrhythmia Detection)

Event Locations

I 5,714 (53.9%)
4,278 (40.3%)
HOSPITAL 355 (3.3%)
OTHER 241 (2.3%)
NO INFORMATION 9 (0.1%)
CLINIC - WALK IN, OTHER 6 (0.1%)
EXAMINATION ROOM 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC.(CRM-SYLMAR) vs ABBOTT →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac,, 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 (10,606 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (19 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac, 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 Recorder, Event, Implantable Cardiac,; 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.