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 · 375,710 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 375,710 reports
- RANK #11 of 1000
- DEATH 1,904 death-typed
- INJ 270,266 injury-typed
- MALF 102,938 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2024: 35,076
- PHOTO Implantable Cardiover…
Nearest event-volume peer: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Non-Crt) (3,643 report gap)
Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief sits #11 of 1000 among tracked device types with 375,710 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Stimulator carries 71.9% INJURY-coded reports, 41.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.5% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.0 pp)
- INJ 71.9% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+41.6 pp)
- MALF 27.4% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-37.4 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 19% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. accounts for 22% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% 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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431,358 reports
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379,353 reports
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Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief
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What this shows Stimulator, Spinal-Cord, Totally Implanted For Pain Relief carries 375,710 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
Reports in 2025 (31,445) held close to the prior two-year average of 34,302.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator: 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 (375,710 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1,904 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.