DEXCOM, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for DEXCOM, INC. 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 · 2009–2026 · heavy-book · quiet Death-code · injury-light

Volume signature

DEXCOM, INC. sits in the heavy MAUDE book

DEXCOM, INC. accounts for 2,339,166 FDA MAUDE reports (#1 of 443, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.01% (quiet); Injury share 1.2% (injury-light).

What the volume reading shows for DEXCOM, INC.

The standout signal for DEXCOM, INC. is filing volume: 2,339,166 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#1 of 443, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.01% (quiet).

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair DEXCOM, INC. with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 2,309,897 (98.7% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 353,869 reports across 18 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

2,339,166
Total Reports
319
Event-type Death
28,511
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 2,309,897 (98.7%)
Injury 28,511 (1.2%)
Other 430 (0.0%)
Death 319 (0.0%)
9 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

2,290,359 (97.8%)
Other 34,727 (1.5%)
Required Intervention 4,481 (0.2%)
O 3,610 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 3,531 (0.2%)
H 2,418 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 1,122 (0.0%)
S 495 (0.0%)
R 449 (0.0%)
Disability 420 (0.0%)
Death 354 (0.0%)
L 346 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 178 (0.0%)
D 32 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

09
2009: 1
10
2010: 221
11
2011: 358
12
2012: 293
13
2013: 370
14
2014: 30,666
15
2015: 39,365
16
2016: 89,138
17
2017: 105,338
18
2018: 168,777
19
2019: 131,134
20
2020: 213,816
21
2021: 260,565
22
2022: 233,440
23
2023: 272,810
24
2024: 340,636
25
2025: 353,869
26
2026: 98,369