Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For 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 HEAVY-BOOK · MAUDE
#11 of 1000 · 362,034 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 362,034 reports
- RANK #11 of 1000
- DEATH 1,806 death-typed
- INJ 259,356 injury-typed
- MALF 100,277 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2024: 35,077
- PHOTO Implantable Cardiover…
Nearest event-volume peer: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Non-Crt) (7,278 report gap)
Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief sits #11 of 1000 among tracked device types with 362,034 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 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- INJ 71.6% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+41.2 pp)
- MALF 27.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-36.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 20% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. accounts for 22% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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438,789 reports
- System
System, Test, Blood Glucose, Over The Counter
429,427 reports
- Implantable C…
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Non-Crt)
369,312 reports
- Stimulator (this)
Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief
362,034 reports
- Sensor
Sensor, Glucose, Invasive, Non-Adjunctive
316,062 reports
- Permanent Pac…
Permanent Pacemaker Electrode
313,884 reports
What this shows Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief carries 362,034 MAUDE reports, ranked #11 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
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. vs BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION →
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 (362,034 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,806 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.