Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms
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
#522 of 1000 · 1,810 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 1,810 reports
- RANK #522 of 1000
- DEATH 41 death-typed
- INJ 1,588 injury-typed
- MALF 179 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2023: 411
- PHOTO Generator
Nearest event-volume peer: Generator, Lesion, Radiofrequency (2 report gap)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms sits #522 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,810 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. 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 87.7% INJURY-coded reports, 57.4pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 2.3% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.8 pp)
- INJ 87.7% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+57.4 pp)
- MALF 9.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-54.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 48% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION accounts for 77% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 76% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Generator
Generator, Lesion, Radiofrequency
1,812 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms
1,810 reports
- Over-The-Coun…
Over-The-Counter Automated External Defibrillator
1,803 reports
- Operating Roo…
Operating Room Accessories Table Tray
1,802 reports
- Needle
Needle, Aspiration And Injection, Disposable
1,796 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Elbow, Hemi-, Radial, Polymer
1,793 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms carries 1,810 MAUDE reports, ranked #522 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 fell to 194 in 2025, down from an average of 405 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Symptoms
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION 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 (1,810 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (41 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.