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
#479 of 1000 · 2,042 reports · 2016–2026
- BOOK 2,042 reports
- RANK #479 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 646 injury-typed
- MALF 1,391 malfunction
- SPAN 2016–2026
- PEAK 2023: 543
- PHOTO Tray
Nearest event-volume peer: Tray, Surgical, Instrument (4 report gap)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor sits #479 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,042 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 →
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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 31.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+1.2 pp)
- MALF 68.1% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+3.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Connection Problem is 12% 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
- Agent
Agent, Absorbable Hemostatic, Collagen Based
2,061 reports
- Ligator
Ligator, Hemorrhoidal
2,053 reports
- Tray
Tray, Surgical, Instrument
2,046 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor
2,042 reports
- Light Source
Light Source, Endoscope, Xenon Arc
2,036 reports
- Filler
Filler, Bone Void, Calcium Compound
2,026 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Essential Tremor carries 2,042 MAUDE reports, ranked #479 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 PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. vs MEDTRONIC MED REL MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO →
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 (2,042 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.