MEDTRONIC MED REL, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for MEDTRONIC MED REL, 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 · 1996–2016 · heavy-book · elevated Death-code · injury-heavy

Death-code intensity

MEDTRONIC MED REL, INC. carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 3,390 of 31,021 (10.93% · elevated tercile among 443 manufacturers). Absolute volume is heavy-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for MEDTRONIC MED REL, INC.

The standout signal for MEDTRONIC MED REL, INC. is Death-code intensity: 10.93% of 31,021 reports (elevated tercile), while absolute volume is heavy-book.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair MEDTRONIC MED REL, 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 15 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 20,769 (67.0% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 9,672 reports across 18 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

31,021
Total Reports
3,390
Event-type Death
20,769
Injury Reports
15
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 20,769 (67.0%)
Malfunction 6,787 (21.9%)
Death 3,390 (10.9%)
73 (0.2%)
Other 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

R 12,399 (27.1%)
Hospitalization 11,642 (25.4%)
Other 9,633 (21.0%)
Required Intervention 5,941 (13.0%)
Death 3,317 (7.2%)
O 1,254 (2.7%)
L 874 (1.9%)
Life Threatening 418 (0.9%)
H 229 (0.5%)
68 (0.1%)
D 13 (0.0%)
S 5 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 36
98
1998: 178
99
1999: 105
00
2000: 217
01
2001: 203
02
2002: 280
03
2003: 344
04
2004: 312
05
2005: 218
06
2006: 446
07
2007: 576
08
2008: 786
09
2009: 1,927
10
2010: 7,366
11
2011: 9,672
12
2012: 8,353
16
2016: 1