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Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology

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 Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#550 of 1000 · 1,588 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,588 reports
  • RANK #550 of 1000
  • DEATH 39 death-typed
  • INJ 350 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,164 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 1999: 146
  • PHOTO Electrode

Nearest event-volume peer: Electrode, Electrocardiograph (1 report gap)

Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology sits #550 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,588 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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

Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology carries 73.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 8.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.5% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+0.9 pp)
  • INJ 22.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-8.3 pp)
  • MALF 73.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+8.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Inflation Problem is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 58% of location-tagged rows .

Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology carries 1,588 MAUDE reports, ranked #550 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,164 (73.3%)
Injury 350 (22.0%)
Death 39 (2.5%)
Other 20 (1.3%)
15 (0.9%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,203 (72.3%)
Required Intervention 196 (11.8%)
Hospitalization 67 (4.0%)
Other 59 (3.5%)
R 47 (2.8%)
Death 38 (2.3%)
L 16 (1.0%)
Life Threatening 14 (0.8%)
Disability 11 (0.7%)
O 6 (0.4%)
S 5 (0.3%)
D 1 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Inflation Problem 270
Air Leak 195
Replace 165
Break 144
Deflation Problem 93
Use of Device Problem 91
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 84
Leak/Splash 83
Device, removal of (non-implant) 76
Gas/Air Leak 74
Material Separation 49
Detachment Of Device Component 46
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 43
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 35
Difficult to Remove 32
Reaction 27
Difficult to Insert 26
Component(s), broken 23
Tears, rips, holes in device, device material 23
Hole In Material 22

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 5
95
1995: 15
96
1996: 30
97
1997: 102
98
1998: 118
99
1999: 146
00
2000: 83
01
2001: 78
02
2002: 84
03
2003: 90
04
2004: 34
05
2005: 38
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 4
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 5
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 19
12
2012: 8
13
2013: 42
14
2014: 31
15
2015: 14
16
2016: 69
17
2017: 75
18
2018: 56
19
2019: 80
20
2020: 30
21
2021: 62
22
2022: 51
23
2023: 52
24
2024: 59
25
2025: 61
26
2026: 32

Reports in 2025 (61) held close to the prior two-year average of 56.

Related Entities for Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 494

Event Locations

919 (57.9%)
I 326 (20.5%)
HOSPITAL 257 (16.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 46 (2.9%)
NO INFORMATION 12 (0.8%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.5%)
OTHER 8 (0.5%)
UNKNOWN 5 (0.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.3%)
HOME 2 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.1%)

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,588 here).

Electrode, Electrocardiograph 1,587 Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay 1,578 Table, Operating-Room, Electrical 1,602 Tube 1,573

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (39 here), distinct from the volume row.

Suture 39 System 39 Appliance, Fixation, Spinal Interlaminal 40 Applier, Surgical, Clip 40

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology 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 Airway, Oropharyngeal, Anesthesiology; 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.