Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy
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 Stimulator MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#66 of 1000 · 51,263 reports · 1998–2026
- BOOK 51,263 reports
- RANK #66 of 1000
- DEATH 2,889 death-typed
- INJ 18,131 injury-typed
- MALF 30,121 malfunction
- SPAN 1998–2026
- PEAK 2013: 3,809
- PHOTO Syringe, Piston
Nearest event-volume peer: Syringe, Piston (229 report gap)
Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy sits #66 of 1000 among tracked device types with 51,263 MAUDE reports spanning 1998–2026. 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 5.6% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+4.1 pp)
- INJ 35.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+4.9 pp)
- MALF 58.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-5.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer CYBERONICS, INC. accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location OTHER is 64% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Suture
Suture, Absorbable, Synthetic, Polyglycolic Acid
52,543 reports
- Generator
Generator, Oxygen, Portable
52,481 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Tremor
51,502 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy
51,263 reports
- Syringe
Syringe, Piston
51,034 reports
- Drug Eluting…
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode
50,826 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy carries 51,263 MAUDE reports, ranked #66 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
Related Entities for Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, 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 (51,263 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2,889 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator 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 Stimulator; 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.