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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §882.5880 (Neurology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#78 of 1000 · 43,932 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 43,932 reports
- RANK #78 of 1000
- DEATH 196 death-typed
- INJ 41,438 injury-typed
- MALF 1,802 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2014: 10,849
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Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief) sits #78 of 1000 among tracked device types with 43,932 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted carries 94.3% INJURY-coded reports, 64.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
- INJ 94.3% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+64.0 pp)
- MALF 4.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-60.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 42% 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
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What this shows Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief) carries 43,932 MAUDE reports, ranked #78 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 (317) held close to the prior two-year average of 277.
Related Entities for Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted (Pain Relief)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Implanted: 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 (43,932 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (196 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.