Stimulator, Nerve
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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §874.1820 (Ear, Nose, Throat panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Stimulator, Nerve LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#317 of 1000 · 5,083 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 5,083 reports
- RANK #317 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 806 injury-typed
- MALF 4,240 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 1,156
- PHOTO Accessories
Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope (37 report gap)
Stimulator, Nerve sits #317 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,083 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Stimulator, Nerve carries 83.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 18.6pp 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 15.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-14.4 pp)
- MALF 83.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+18.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC XOMED INC. accounts for 87% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 66% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator, Nerve in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Tissue Expand…
Tissue Expander And Accessories
5,148 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Unicompartmental, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing
5,146 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Arthroscopic
5,126 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Nerve
5,083 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope
5,046 reports
- Monitor
Monitor, Blood-Gas, On-Line, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
5,034 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Nerve carries 5,083 MAUDE reports, ranked #317 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 rose to 1,156 in 2025, up from an average of 569 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Stimulator, Nerve
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Nerve: 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 (5,083 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator, 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, 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.