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Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#798 of 1000 · 621 reports · 1998–2026

  • BOOK 621 reports
  • RANK #798 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 34 injury-typed
  • MALF 585 malfunction
  • SPAN 1998–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 142
  • PHOTO Bit, Surgical

Nearest event-volume peer: Bit, Surgical (1 report gap)

Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope sits #798 of 1000 among tracked device types with 621 MAUDE reports spanning 1998–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 5.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-25.0 pp)
  • MALF 94.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+29.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 50% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION accounts for 47% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 62% of location-tagged rows .

Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope carries 621 MAUDE reports, ranked #798 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 585 (94.2%)
Injury 34 (5.5%)
1 (0.2%)
Other 1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

557 (89.5%)
Required Intervention 33 (5.3%)
Other 27 (4.3%)
Hospitalization 2 (0.3%)
H 1 (0.2%)
R 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 297
Detachment of Device or Device Component 49
Entrapment of Device 23
Material Separation 22
Detachment Of Device Component 21
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 19
Material Integrity Problem 19
Device Reprocessing Problem 17
Failure to Clean Adequately 16
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 15
Difficult to Remove 15
Fracture 14
Use of Device Problem 13
Defective Device 9
Material Fragmentation 9
Failure to Disconnect 8
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 7
Suction Problem 7
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 6
Material Frayed 6

Yearly Trend

98
1998: 1
02
2002: 3
04
2004: 1
08
2008: 3
09
2009: 6
10
2010: 6
11
2011: 6
12
2012: 6
14
2014: 6
15
2015: 10
16
2016: 16
17
2017: 18
18
2018: 46
19
2019: 47
20
2020: 28
21
2021: 68
22
2022: 60
23
2023: 65
24
2024: 66
25
2025: 142
26
2026: 17

Related Entities for Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope

Top Manufacturers

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 241
SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 83
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. 61
AOMORI OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 45
HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE 33
COOK IRELAND LTD 31
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - MARLBOROUGH 17

Event Locations

386 (62.2%)
I 177 (28.5%)
HOSPITAL 38 (6.1%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (1.9%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 2 (0.3%)
OTHER 2 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.2%)

Compare BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION vs SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (621 here).

Bit, Surgical 622 Integrated Continuous Glucose Monitoring Sy… 620 Monitor, Apnea, Facility Use 620 Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 626

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0 Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Pump, Infusion 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.