MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR GALWAY

Manufacturer adverse-event records for MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR GALWAY 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 · 2008–2015 · thin-book · elevated Death-code · injury-heavy

Death-code intensity

MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR GALWAY carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 591 of 3,839 (15.39% · elevated tercile among 434 manufacturers). Absolute volume is thin-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR GALWAY

The standout signal for MEDTRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR GALWAY is Death-code intensity: 15.39% of 3,839 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 9 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 2,372 (61.8% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 1,799 reports across 6 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

3,839
Total Reports
591
Event-type Death
2,372
Injury Reports
9
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 2,372 (61.8%)
Malfunction 871 (22.7%)
Death 591 (15.4%)
5 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,878 (45.8%)
1,002 (24.5%)
Death 594 (14.5%)
Hospitalization 333 (8.1%)
R 183 (4.5%)
H 50 (1.2%)
Life Threatening 18 (0.4%)
D 15 (0.4%)
Other 8 (0.2%)
S 5 (0.1%)
L 3 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.1%)
O 2 (0.0%)
Disability 2 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 555
09
2009: 821
10
2010: 1,799
11
2011: 659
14
2014: 2
15
2015: 3