2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class III

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive

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 Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE

#13 of 1000 · 324,715 reports · 2016–2026

  • BOOK 324,715 reports
  • RANK #13 of 1000
  • DEATH 10 death-typed
  • INJ 2,321 injury-typed
  • MALF 322,384 malfunction
  • SPAN 2016–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 116,245
  • PHOTO Permanent Pacemaker E…

Nearest event-volume peer: Permanent Pacemaker Electrode (628 report gap)

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive sits #13 of 1000 among tracked device types with 324,715 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive carries 99.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 0.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.6 pp)
  • MALF 99.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Wireless Communication Problem is 48% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEXCOM, INC. accounts for 73% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 74% of location-tagged rows .

Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive carries 324,715 MAUDE reports, ranked #13 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 322,384 (99.3%)
Injury 2,321 (0.7%)
Death 10 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

320,496 (99.1%)
Other 2,055 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 266 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 217 (0.1%)
O 193 (0.1%)
Required Intervention 78 (0.0%)
Disability 63 (0.0%)
H 34 (0.0%)
S 33 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 30 (0.0%)
R 27 (0.0%)
Death 15 (0.0%)
D 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Wireless Communication Problem 169,291
Imprecision 51,355
Device Displays Incorrect Message 28,079
No Device Output 25,215
Use of Device Problem 24,263
Invalid Sensing 6,721
Premature End-of-Life Indicator 4,964
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 4,307
Communication or Transmission Problem 4,126
Unable to Obtain Readings 4,084
Defective Alarm 4,067
Device Inoperable 3,759
Inappropriate or Unexpected Reset 3,614
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 2,996
Detachment of Device or Device Component 2,967
Unexpected Shutdown 2,846
Battery Problem 2,457
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 2,209
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 2,109
Calibration Problem 1,924

Yearly Trend

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2016: 3
17
2017: 65,182
18
2018: 116,245
19
2019: 44,510
20
2020: 10,579
21
2021: 4,943
22
2022: 1,378
23
2023: 6,373
24
2024: 22,392
25
2025: 38,645
26
2026: 14,465

Reports rose to 38,645 in 2025, up from an average of 14,383 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive

Event Locations

I 240,234 (74.0%)
84,470 (26.0%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.0%)

Compare DEXCOM, INC. vs MEDTRONIC MINIMED →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive: 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 (324,715 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (10 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive 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 Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive; 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.