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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §882.5550 (Neurology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#123 of 1000 · 25,418 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 25,418 reports
- RANK #123 of 1000
- DEATH 222 death-typed
- INJ 16,249 injury-typed
- MALF 7,925 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2018: 1,484
- PHOTO Mitral Valve Repair D…
Nearest event-volume peer: Mitral Valve Repair Devices (18 report gap)
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components sits #123 of 1000 among tracked device types with 25,418 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 →
Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components carries 31.2% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.6pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.9% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.6 pp)
- INJ 63.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+33.6 pp)
- MALF 31.2% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-33.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Infusion or Flow Problem is 12% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% 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
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing
25,951 reports
- Fastener
Fastener, Fixation, Nondegradable, Soft Tissue
25,623 reports
- Arthroscope
Arthroscope
25,491 reports
- Heart-Valve
Heart-Valve, Non-Allograft Tissue
25,471 reports
- Shunt (this)
Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components
25,418 reports
- Mitral Valve…
Mitral Valve Repair Devices
25,400 reports
What this shows Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components carries 25,418 MAUDE reports, ranked #123 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
Reports in 2025 (1,219) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,218.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Shunt, Central Nervous System And Components: 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 (25,418 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (222 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.