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.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §874.4680 (Ear, Nose, Throat panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Bronchoscope MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#106 of 1000 · 31,113 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 31,113 reports
- RANK #106 of 1000
- DEATH 204 death-typed
- INJ 4,150 injury-typed
- MALF 26,649 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2025: 6,619
- PHOTO Wheelchair, Powered
Nearest event-volume peer: Wheelchair, Powered (571 report gap)
Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) sits #106 of 1000 among tracked device types with 31,113 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Bronchoscope carries 85.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 20.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.7% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
- INJ 13.3% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-17.0 pp)
- MALF 85.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+20.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code No Display/Image is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AIZU OLYMPUS CO., LTD. accounts for 72% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 88% of location-tagged rows .
Bronchoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Protector
Protector, Ostomy
32,254 reports
- Monitor
Monitor, Physiological, Patient(With Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms)
32,228 reports
- Bronchoscope (this)
Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
31,113 reports
- Wheelchair
Wheelchair, Powered
30,542 reports
- Dialysate Con…
Dialysate Concentrate For Hemodialysis (Liquid Or Powder)
30,008 reports
- Drill
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
29,783 reports
What this shows Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) carries 31,113 MAUDE reports, ranked #106 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (6,619) held close to the prior two-year average of 5,558.
Related Entities for Bronchoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare AIZU OLYMPUS CO., LTD. vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Bronchoscope: 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 (31,113 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (204 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.