Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components
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 Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#119 of 1000 · 24,906 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 24,906 reports
- RANK #119 of 1000
- DEATH 212 death-typed
- INJ 15,952 injury-typed
- MALF 7,723 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2018: 1,484
- PHOTO Tubes
Nearest event-volume peer: Tubes, Gastrointestinal (And Accessories) (156 report gap)
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components sits #119 of 1000 among tracked device types with 24,906 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 0.9% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
- INJ 64.0% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+33.6 pp)
- MALF 31.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-33.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Infusion or Flow Problem is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY accounts for 82% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Wheelchair
Wheelchair, Mechanical
25,664 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing
25,649 reports
- Tubes
Tubes, Gastrointestinal (And Accessories)
25,062 reports
- Shunt (this)
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components
24,906 reports
- Arthroscope
Arthroscope
24,657 reports
- Heart-Valve
Heart-Valve, Non-Allograft Tissue
24,466 reports
What this shows Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components carries 24,906 MAUDE reports, ranked #119 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY vs CODMAN & SHURTLEFF, INC. →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components, 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 (24,906 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (212 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components 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 Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components; 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.