Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted
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, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#967 of 1000 · 403 reports · 2018–2026
- BOOK 403 reports
- RANK #967 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 187 injury-typed
- MALF 214 malfunction
- SPAN 2018–2026
- PEAK 2025: 83
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Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted sits #967 of 1000 among tracked device types with 403 MAUDE reports spanning 2018–2026. 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, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted carries 46.4% INJURY-coded reports, 16.1pp 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 46.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+16.1 pp)
- MALF 53.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-11.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. accounts for 66% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 78% of location-tagged rows .
Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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What this shows Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, Implanted carries 403 MAUDE reports, ranked #967 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 (83) held close to the prior two-year average of 68.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. vs MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, 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 (403 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Stimulator, Thalamic, Epilepsy, 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, Thalamic, Epilepsy, 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.