Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor
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 LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#471 of 1000 · 2,224 reports · 2016–2026
- BOOK 2,224 reports
- RANK #471 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 734 injury-typed
- MALF 1,485 malfunction
- SPAN 2016–2026
- PEAK 2023: 543
- PHOTO Warmer
Nearest event-volume peer: Warmer, Blood, Non-Electromagnetic Radiation (5 report gap)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor sits #471 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,224 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Stimulator carries 33.0% INJURY-coded reports, 2.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 33.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+2.7 pp)
- MALF 66.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+1.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Connection Problem is 11% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. accounts for 80% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 93% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Implant
Implant, Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux
2,236 reports
- Tray
Tray, Surgical, Instrument
2,231 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor
2,224 reports
- Warmer
Warmer, Blood, Non-Electromagnetic Radiation
2,219 reports
- Forceps
Forceps
2,217 reports
- Endoscopic Gr…
Endoscopic Grasping/Cutting Instrument, Non-Powered
2,211 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor carries 2,224 MAUDE reports, ranked #471 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 (426) held close to the prior two-year average of 519.
Related Entities for Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator: 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 (2,224 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 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.