CYBERONICS - HOUSTON

Manufacturer adverse-event records for CYBERONICS - HOUSTON come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2015–2025 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Death-code intensity

CYBERONICS - HOUSTON carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 438 of 6,908 (6.34% · elevated tercile among 434 manufacturers). Absolute volume is thin-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for CYBERONICS - HOUSTON

The standout signal for CYBERONICS - HOUSTON is Death-code intensity: 6.34% of 6,908 reports (elevated tercile), while absolute volume is thin-book.

As a thinner-book manufacturer, a handful of device families can swing the totals; open the device table rather than reading the company headline alone. Event_type counts are not the same population as Patient Outcomes.

Reports span 3 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,396 (49.2% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 960 reports across 11 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

6,908
Total Reports
438
Event-type Death
3,074
Injury Reports
3
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,396 (49.2%)
Injury 3,074 (44.5%)
Death 438 (6.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

3,250 (44.6%)
Required Intervention 1,654 (22.7%)
Other 1,056 (14.5%)
Death 434 (6.0%)
Hospitalization 382 (5.2%)
R 245 (3.4%)
Disability 92 (1.3%)
O 63 (0.9%)
H 41 (0.6%)
Life Threatening 34 (0.5%)
L 19 (0.3%)
S 9 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

15
2015: 286
16
2016: 734
17
2017: 722
18
2018: 858
19
2019: 960
20
2020: 626
21
2021: 648
22
2022: 485
23
2023: 717
24
2024: 622
25
2025: 250