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Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)

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 Bronchoscope MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#112 of 1000 · 26,266 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 26,266 reports
  • RANK #112 of 1000
  • DEATH 187 death-typed
  • INJ 3,763 injury-typed
  • MALF 22,206 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 6,619
  • PHOTO Test

Nearest event-volume peer: Test, Time, Prothrombin (193 report gap)

Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) sits #112 of 1000 among tracked device types with 26,266 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
  • INJ 14.3% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-16.1 pp)
  • MALF 84.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+20.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code No Display/Image is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AIZU OLYMPUS CO., LTD. accounts for 68% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Bronchoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) carries 26,266 MAUDE reports, ranked #112 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 22,206 (84.5%)
Injury 3,763 (14.3%)
Death 187 (0.7%)
Other 96 (0.4%)
14 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

22,970 (84.9%)
Other 1,532 (5.7%)
Required Intervention 1,022 (3.8%)
R 462 (1.7%)
Hospitalization 456 (1.7%)
H 296 (1.1%)
Death 133 (0.5%)
O 76 (0.3%)
L 53 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 39 (0.1%)
D 19 (0.1%)
Disability 11 (0.0%)
S 2 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

No Display/Image 6,273
Communication or Transmission Problem 2,863
Peeled/Delaminated 2,482
Break 2,354
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 2,284
Poor Quality Image 1,125
Thermal Decomposition of Device 1,023
Erratic or Intermittent Display 943
Detachment of Device or Device Component 776
Microbial Contamination of Device 737
Fluid/Blood Leak 711
Failure to Clean Adequately 626
Device Reprocessing Problem 465
Degraded 362
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 332
Loose or Intermittent Connection 269
Material Deformation 227
Corroded 218
Optical Obstruction 210
Material Split, Cut or Torn 192

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
94
1994: 8
95
1995: 1
96
1996: 2
97
1997: 14
98
1998: 9
99
1999: 12
00
2000: 15
01
2001: 14
02
2002: 41
03
2003: 13
04
2004: 23
05
2005: 17
06
2006: 27
07
2007: 39
08
2008: 87
09
2009: 113
10
2010: 100
11
2011: 96
12
2012: 93
13
2013: 93
14
2014: 98
15
2015: 132
16
2016: 297
17
2017: 337
18
2018: 279
19
2019: 654
20
2020: 515
21
2021: 1,358
22
2022: 2,541
23
2023: 5,064
24
2024: 6,051
25
2025: 6,619
26
2026: 1,503

Related Entities for Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)

Top Manufacturers

AIZU OLYMPUS CO., LTD. 16,302
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. 2,912
HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE 2,655
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC 1,421
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 349
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC - SPENCER 230

Event Locations

22,718 (86.5%)
I 2,709 (10.3%)
HOSPITAL 711 (2.7%)
NO INFORMATION 66 (0.3%)
OTHER 46 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 7 (0.0%)
HOME 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 3 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare AIZU OLYMPUS CO., LTD. vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bronchoscope, 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 (26,266 here).

Test, Time, Prothrombin 26,459 Device, Neurovascular Embolization 25,981 Stapler, Surgical 25,936 System, Thermal Regulating 25,855

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (187 here), distinct from the volume row.

Wheelchair, Powered 185 Prosthesis 184 Defibrillator, Implantable, Dual-Chamber 191 Implant, Intragastric For Morbid Obesity 191

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Bronchoscope 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 Bronchoscope; 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.