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Stimulator, Nerve, Transcutaneous, For Pain Relief

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Stimulator LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#878 of 1000 · 493 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 493 reports
  • RANK #878 of 1000
  • DEATH 4 death-typed
  • INJ 282 injury-typed
  • MALF 91 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 58
  • PHOTO Gases Used Within Eye…

Nearest event-volume peer: Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On Detached Retina (0 report gap)

Stimulator, Nerve, Transcutaneous, For Pain Relief sits #878 of 1000 among tracked device types with 493 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 →

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 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 57.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+26.8 pp)
  • MALF 18.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-46.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 45% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNK accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Stimulator, Nerve, Transcutaneous, For Pain Relief carries 493 MAUDE reports, ranked #878 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 282 (57.2%)
Other 96 (19.5%)
Malfunction 91 (18.5%)
20 (4.1%)
Death 4 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

Other 279 (52.2%)
110 (20.6%)
Required Intervention 68 (12.7%)
R 28 (5.2%)
Hospitalization 15 (2.8%)
Disability 12 (2.2%)
S 5 (0.9%)
O 4 (0.7%)
Death 4 (0.7%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.6%)
H 2 (0.4%)
L 2 (0.4%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.4%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 87
Insufficient Information 31
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 11
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 7
Use of Device Problem 7
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 5
Patient-Device Incompatibility 5
Break 4
Device Issue 4
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 4
Output Problem 4
Patient Device Interaction Problem 4
Human Factors Issue 3
Loss of Power 3
Mechanical Problem 3
Thermal Decomposition of Device 3
Defective Device 2
Device Operational Issue 2
Output above Specifications 2
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 1

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 4
96
1996: 9
97
1997: 13
98
1998: 10
99
1999: 8
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 4
02
2002: 9
03
2003: 6
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 12
06
2006: 15
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 45
09
2009: 17
10
2010: 22
11
2011: 22
12
2012: 20
13
2013: 10
14
2014: 23
15
2015: 18
16
2016: 32
17
2017: 58
18
2018: 21
19
2019: 7
20
2020: 10
21
2021: 5
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 39
24
2024: 12
25
2025: 13
26
2026: 2

Related Entities for Stimulator, Nerve, Transcutaneous, For Pain Relief

Top Manufacturers

UNK 13

Event Locations

238 (48.3%)
HOME 50 (10.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 43 (8.7%)
OTHER 40 (8.1%)
HOSPITAL 34 (6.9%)
I 34 (6.9%)
NO INFORMATION 23 (4.7%)
UNKNOWN 17 (3.4%)
INVALID DATA 8 (1.6%)
NOT APPLICABLE 5 (1.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.2%)

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 (493 here).

Gases Used Within Eye To Place Pressure On… 493 Glue, Surgical, Arteries 492 Prosthesis 494 Radioimmunoassay, Vancomycin 494

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Urethral 4 Disinfectant, Medical Devices 4 Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece 4 Electrode 4

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.