MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY

Manufacturer adverse-event records for MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY 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 · 2001–2026 · mid-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Death-code intensity

MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY carries an elevated Death-code share

Death-coded event_type rows are 101 of 7,941 (1.27% · elevated tercile among 434 manufacturers). Absolute volume is mid-book.

What the Death-code reading shows for MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY

The standout signal for MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY is Death-code intensity: 1.27% of 7,941 reports (elevated tercile), while absolute volume is mid-book.

Mid-pack volume still shows a clear device fingerprint; the table below is the actionable layer for MEDTRONIC NEUROSURGERY. Event_type Death/Injury codes differ from patient-outcome rows - see methodology.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,972 (50.0% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 677 reports across 26 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

7,941
Total Reports
101
Event-type Death
3,104
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,972 (50.0%)
Injury 3,104 (39.1%)
622 (7.8%)
Other 142 (1.8%)
Death 101 (1.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

4,626 (44.1%)
Hospitalization 2,575 (24.5%)
R 2,371 (22.6%)
Required Intervention 350 (3.3%)
Other 248 (2.4%)
Death 100 (1.0%)
H 65 (0.6%)
L 59 (0.6%)
O 39 (0.4%)
S 22 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 20 (0.2%)
Disability 14 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 84
02
2002: 207
03
2003: 190
04
2004: 174
05
2005: 235
06
2006: 194
07
2007: 233
08
2008: 280
09
2009: 270
10
2010: 379
11
2011: 314
12
2012: 453
13
2013: 450
14
2014: 536
15
2015: 497
16
2016: 516
17
2017: 677
18
2018: 606
19
2019: 497
20
2020: 389
21
2021: 224
22
2022: 222
23
2023: 151
24
2024: 125
25
2025: 22
26
2026: 16