Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian 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 MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#65 of 1000 · 52,959 reports · 1999–2026
- BOOK 52,959 reports
- RANK #65 of 1000
- DEATH 729 death-typed
- INJ 25,355 injury-typed
- MALF 26,645 malfunction
- SPAN 1999–2026
- PEAK 2018: 4,494
- PHOTO Generator
Nearest event-volume peer: Generator, Oxygen, Portable (174 report gap)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Tremor sits #65 of 1000 among tracked device types with 52,959 MAUDE reports spanning 1999–2026. 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 47.9% INJURY-coded reports, 17.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 1.4% corpus 1.5% · near corpus mean (-0.1 pp)
- INJ 47.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+17.6 pp)
- MALF 50.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-14.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 47% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Tremor
52,959 reports
- Generator
Generator, Oxygen, Portable
52,785 reports
- Syringe
Syringe, Piston
52,759 reports
- Drug Eluting…
Drug Eluting Permanent Left Ventricular (Lv) Pacemaker Electrode
52,206 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Autonomic Nerve, Implanted For Epilepsy
51,898 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Ac-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
50,267 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Electrical, Implanted, For Parkinsonian Tremor carries 52,959 MAUDE reports, ranked #65 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 (3,431) held close to the prior two-year average of 3,936.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. vs MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION →
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 (52,959 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (729 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.