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Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted (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, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#338 of 1000 · 4,295 reports · 1999–2026

  • BOOK 4,295 reports
  • RANK #338 of 1000
  • DEATH 12 death-typed
  • INJ 4,212 injury-typed
  • MALF 66 malfunction
  • SPAN 1999–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 678
  • PHOTO Intestinal Stimulator

Nearest event-volume peer: Intestinal Stimulator (0 report gap)

Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted (Pain Relief) sits #338 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,295 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 →

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 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 98.1% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+67.6 pp)
  • MALF 1.5% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-63.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 59% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION accounts for 91% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 61% of location-tagged rows .

Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted (Pain Relief) carries 4,295 MAUDE reports, ranked #338 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 4,212 (98.1%)
Malfunction 66 (1.5%)
Death 12 (0.3%)
Other 3 (0.1%)
2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 2,850 (65.7%)
Required Intervention 916 (21.1%)
434 (10.0%)
Hospitalization 68 (1.6%)
R 25 (0.6%)
O 14 (0.3%)
Death 12 (0.3%)
H 8 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.1%)
S 3 (0.1%)
Disability 3 (0.1%)
L 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,061
Use of Device Problem 292
Migration 289
Insufficient Information 122
Intermittent Communication Failure 104
High impedance 83
Impedance Problem 80
Migration or Expulsion of Device 69
Fracture 67
Device Unsafe to Use in Environment 48
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 46
Off-Label Use 37
Malposition of Device 35
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 34
Lack of Effect 26
Expulsion 25
Material Erosion 25
Material Protrusion/Extrusion 15
Detachment of Device or Device Component 13
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 13

Yearly Trend

99
1999: 2
01
2001: 1
04
2004: 1
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 13
09
2009: 10
10
2010: 24
11
2011: 17
12
2012: 12
13
2013: 77
14
2014: 268
15
2015: 346
16
2016: 414
17
2017: 330
18
2018: 318
19
2019: 64
20
2020: 104
21
2021: 226
22
2022: 183
23
2023: 524
24
2024: 678
25
2025: 602
26
2026: 74

Related Entities for Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted (Pain Relief)

Top Manufacturers

ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION 1,640
MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION 94
ST JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION 36
ST. JUDE MEDICAL ¿ NEUROMODULATION 24
ST. JUDE MEDICAL- NEUROMODULATION 11
ST. JUDE MEDICAL, NEUROMODULATION 6

Event Locations

2,621 (61.0%)
I 1,581 (36.8%)
OTHER 62 (1.4%)
HOME 15 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 6 (0.1%)
HOSPITAL 3 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION vs MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted, 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 (4,295 here).

Intestinal Stimulator 4,295 Implant, Eye Valve 4,290 System, Hypothermia, Intravenous, Cooling 4,279 Pack, Hot Or Cold, Disposable 4,263

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (12 here), distinct from the volume row.

Adhesive 12 Blood Pump For Ecmo, Long-Term Use 12 Catheter, Retention Type, Balloon 12 Digital Breast Tomosynthesis 12

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Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted 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, Peripheral Nerve, Implanted; 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.