2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#189 of 1000 · 12,449 reports · 2006–2026

  • BOOK 12,449 reports
  • RANK #189 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 173 injury-typed
  • MALF 12,260 malfunction
  • SPAN 2006–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 2,889
  • PHOTO Clamp, Vascular

Nearest event-volume peer: Clamp, Vascular (19 report gap)

Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum sits #189 of 1000 among tracked device types with 12,449 MAUDE reports spanning 2006–2026. 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 1.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.0 pp)
  • MALF 98.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Communication or Transmission Problem is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. accounts for 65% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 84% of location-tagged rows .

Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum carries 12,449 MAUDE reports, ranked #189 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 12,260 (98.5%)
Injury 173 (1.4%)
Other 13 (0.1%)
Death 2 (0.0%)
1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

12,204 (98.2%)
Other 116 (0.9%)
Required Intervention 44 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 21 (0.2%)
R 19 (0.2%)
O 8 (0.1%)
H 5 (0.0%)
Death 2 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Communication or Transmission Problem 3,242
No Display/Image 1,282
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 1,144
Poor Quality Image 892
Output Problem 849
Failure to Power Up 628
No Device Output 583
Break 466
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 423
No Visual Prompts/Feedback 396
Connection Problem 275
Power Problem 257
Erratic or Intermittent Display 231
Activation Failure 204
Optical Problem 196
Defective Component 183
Leak/Splash 147
Key or Button Unresponsive/not Working 146
Image Display Error/Artifact 138
Loose or Intermittent Connection 117

Yearly Trend

06
2006: 2
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 3
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 2
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 1
13
2013: 9
14
2014: 22
15
2015: 32
16
2016: 25
17
2017: 17
18
2018: 4
19
2019: 3
20
2020: 823
21
2021: 1,453
22
2022: 1,828
23
2023: 2,180
24
2024: 2,649
25
2025: 2,889
26
2026: 503

Related Entities for Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum

Event Locations

10,509 (84.4%)
I 1,872 (15.0%)
HOSPITAL 50 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 11 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 5 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

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

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum, 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 (12,449 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum 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 Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum; 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.