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Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §888.3070 (Orthopedic panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#125 of 1000 · 24,647 reports · 2002–2026

  • BOOK 24,647 reports
  • RANK #125 of 1000
  • DEATH 86 death-typed
  • INJ 14,335 injury-typed
  • MALF 10,122 malfunction
  • SPAN 2002–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 2,076
  • PHOTO Programmer, Pacemaker

Nearest event-volume peer: Programmer, Pacemaker (488 report gap)

Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System sits #125 of 1000 among tracked device types with 24,647 MAUDE reports spanning 2002–2026. 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

Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System carries 58.2% INJURY-coded reports, 27.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.3% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.2 pp)
  • INJ 58.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+27.9 pp)
  • MALF 41.1% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-23.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 22% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES SPINE accounts for 23% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System carries 24,647 MAUDE reports, ranked #125 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 14,335 (58.2%)
Malfunction 10,122 (41.1%)
Death 86 (0.3%)
Other 55 (0.2%)
49 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 11,166 (41.6%)
9,389 (35.0%)
Other 2,576 (9.6%)
R 1,668 (6.2%)
Hospitalization 1,343 (5.0%)
O 265 (1.0%)
H 211 (0.8%)
Death 100 (0.4%)
S 47 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 19 (0.1%)
L 15 (0.1%)
Disability 14 (0.1%)
D 3 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 5,282
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3,480
Fracture 1,991
Migration 1,505
Device Slipped 1,473
Material Deformation 1,350
Migration or Expulsion of Device 1,135
Loose or Intermittent Connection 1,126
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 1,079
Insufficient Device Problem Information 794
Detachment Of Device Component 703
Detachment of Device or Device Component 693
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 682
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 560
Material Twisted/Bent 502
Mechanical Problem 381
Unintended Movement 362
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 345
Difficult to Remove 318
Device-Device Incompatibility 317

Yearly Trend

02
2002: 2
03
2003: 4
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 34
08
2008: 82
09
2009: 171
10
2010: 462
11
2011: 577
12
2012: 1,747
13
2013: 1,962
14
2014: 1,670
15
2015: 1,447
16
2016: 1,585
17
2017: 1,618
18
2018: 1,684
19
2019: 1,915
20
2020: 2,076
21
2021: 1,745
22
2022: 1,339
23
2023: 919
24
2024: 1,612
25
2025: 1,187
26
2026: 785

Reports in 2025 (1,187) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,266.

Related Entities for Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System

Event Locations

12,566 (51.0%)
I 10,339 (41.9%)
HOSPITAL 1,628 (6.6%)
NO INFORMATION 60 (0.2%)
OTHER 27 (0.1%)
HOME 23 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
OPERATING ROOM 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY SYNTHES SPINE vs ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System: 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 (24,647 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (86 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System 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 Thoracolumbosacral Pedicle Screw System; 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.