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Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope (Exclude Light Sources)

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, Photographic, For Endoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#778 of 1000 · 698 reports · 2008–2026

  • BOOK 698 reports
  • RANK #778 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 27 injury-typed
  • MALF 670 malfunction
  • SPAN 2008–2026
  • PEAK 2023: 131
  • PHOTO Endoscope

Nearest event-volume peer: Endoscope, Ac-Powered And Accessories (1 report gap)

Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope (Exclude Light Sources) sits #778 of 1000 among tracked device types with 698 MAUDE reports spanning 2008–2026. 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope carries 96.0% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 3.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.4 pp)
  • MALF 96.0% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Display or Visual Feedback Problem is 32% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 78% of location-tagged rows .

Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope (Exclude Light Sources) carries 698 MAUDE reports, ranked #778 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 670 (96.0%)
Injury 27 (3.9%)
No answer provided 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

658 (94.1%)
Other 31 (4.4%)
Required Intervention 6 (0.9%)
R 4 (0.6%)

Top Product Problems

Display or Visual Feedback Problem 257
Break 210
Moisture Damage 41
Device-Device Incompatibility 35
Detachment of Device or Device Component 30
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 29
Sparking 29
Smoking 23
Use of Device Problem 19
Unintended Movement 15
Fire 14
Thermal Decomposition of Device 14
Loss of Power 13
Mechanical Problem 13
Difficult to Open or Close 12
Degraded 11
Material Deformation 11
Crack 10
Mechanical Jam 9
Melted 9

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 3
10
2010: 2
12
2012: 1
13
2013: 6
14
2014: 8
15
2015: 5
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 14
18
2018: 15
19
2019: 22
20
2020: 54
21
2021: 47
22
2022: 109
23
2023: 131
24
2024: 108
25
2025: 119
26
2026: 45

Reports in 2025 (119) held close to the prior two-year average of 120.

Related Entities for Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope (Exclude Light Sources)

Top Manufacturers

MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL 222
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. 4

Event Locations

542 (77.7%)
I 141 (20.2%)
HOSPITAL 14 (2.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Accessories, Photographic, For Endoscope carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (698 here).

Endoscope, Ac-Powered And Accessories 697 Subsystem, Water Purification 696 Endoscopic Cytology Brush 695 Lectins And Protectins 701

Similar death-typed counts

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

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Accessories, Photographic, 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, Photographic, 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.