2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve

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 Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#997 of 1000 · 347 reports · 2015–2026

  • BOOK 347 reports
  • RANK #997 of 1000
  • DEATH 31 death-typed
  • INJ 313 injury-typed
  • MALF 3 malfunction
  • SPAN 2015–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 137
  • PHOTO Light

Nearest event-volume peer: Light, Surgical, Accessories (0 report gap)

Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve sits #997 of 1000 among tracked device types with 347 MAUDE reports spanning 2015–2026. 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 8.9% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+7.4 pp)
  • INJ 90.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+59.8 pp)
  • MALF 0.9% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.6 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 69% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DATASCOPE CORP. accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 97% of location-tagged rows .

Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve carries 347 MAUDE reports, ranked #997 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 313 (90.2%)
Death 31 (8.9%)
Malfunction 3 (0.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 137 (32.5%)
Hospitalization 92 (21.8%)
Other 76 (18.0%)
H 33 (7.8%)
R 28 (6.6%)
Death 22 (5.2%)
Disability 15 (3.6%)
D 10 (2.4%)
4 (0.9%)
O 3 (0.7%)
S 1 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 238
Use of Device Problem 17
Material Split, Cut or Torn 14
Material Twisted/Bent 11
Unintended Movement 11
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 9
Expulsion 7
Insufficient Information 7
Low impedance 6
High impedance 5
Fracture 4
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 2
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 2
Material Deformation 2
Material Fragmentation 2
Migration 2
Unintended Electrical Shock 2
Break 1
Component Missing 1

Yearly Trend

15
2015: 1
16
2016: 1
17
2017: 3
18
2018: 1
19
2019: 1
21
2021: 5
22
2022: 24
23
2023: 60
24
2024: 93
25
2025: 137
26
2026: 21

Related Entities for Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

338 (97.4%)
I 9 (2.6%)

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve, 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 (347 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (31 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator, Carotid Sinus Nerve 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, Carotid Sinus Nerve; 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.