2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief)

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, Spinal-Cord, Implanted MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#75 of 1000 · 43,829 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 43,829 reports
  • RANK #75 of 1000
  • DEATH 196 death-typed
  • INJ 41,338 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,799 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 10,849
  • PHOTO Gas-Machine

Nearest event-volume peer: Gas-Machine, Anesthesia (564 report gap)

Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief) sits #75 of 1000 among tracked device types with 43,829 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
  • INJ 94.3% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+63.9 pp)
  • MALF 4.1% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-60.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 71% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION accounts for 77% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 49% of location-tagged rows .

Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief) carries 43,829 MAUDE reports, ranked #75 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 41,338 (94.3%)
Malfunction 1,799 (4.1%)
Other 458 (1.0%)
Death 196 (0.4%)
38 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 36,868 (82.7%)
Required Intervention 3,032 (6.8%)
1,858 (4.2%)
Hospitalization 1,781 (4.0%)
O 369 (0.8%)
R 297 (0.7%)
Death 216 (0.5%)
Life Threatening 38 (0.1%)
S 37 (0.1%)
H 29 (0.1%)
L 29 (0.1%)
Disability 24 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 7 (0.0%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 12,960
High impedance 2,110
Fracture 540
Impedance Problem 510
Low impedance 349
Use of Device Problem 256
Disconnection 251
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 168
Break 167
Migration 129
Charging Problem 112
Nonstandard Device 112
Communication or Transmission Problem 103
Insufficient Information 89
Therapeutic or Diagnostic Output Failure 87
Migration or Expulsion of Device 66
Device Displays Incorrect Message 48
No Device Output 48
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 47
Inappropriate/Inadequate Shock/Stimulation 47

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 27
95
1995: 16
96
1996: 32
97
1997: 87
98
1998: 98
99
1999: 62
00
2000: 74
01
2001: 141
02
2002: 93
03
2003: 69
04
2004: 127
05
2005: 134
06
2006: 173
07
2007: 201
08
2008: 68
09
2009: 59
10
2010: 157
11
2011: 471
12
2012: 1,090
13
2013: 4,428
14
2014: 10,849
15
2015: 7,507
16
2016: 4,555
17
2017: 5,511
18
2018: 5,244
19
2019: 643
20
2020: 466
21
2021: 332
22
2022: 209
23
2023: 236
24
2024: 318
25
2025: 318
26
2026: 33

Related Entities for Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief)

Event Locations

21,585 (49.2%)
I 20,550 (46.9%)
UNKNOWN 725 (1.7%)
OTHER 348 (0.8%)
HOSPITAL 339 (0.8%)
HOME 135 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 48 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 43 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 38 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 11 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 2 (0.0%)
PUBLIC VENUE 2 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION vs ST. JUDE MEDICAL - NEUROMODULATION (PUERTO RICO, LLC) →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, 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 (43,829 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (196 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, 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, Spinal-Cord, 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.