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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §876.1500 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#181 of 1000 · 13,919 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 13,919 reports
- RANK #181 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 173 injury-typed
- MALF 13,730 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2025: 2,889
- PHOTO Oximeter
Nearest event-volume peer: Oximeter (100 report gap)
Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum sits #181 of 1000 among tracked device types with 13,919 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum carries 98.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 1.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.0 pp)
- MALF 98.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+33.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Communication or Transmission Problem is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. accounts for 67% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% 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
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14,298 reports
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14,104 reports
- Endoscope (this)
Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum
13,919 reports
- Oximeter
Oximeter
13,819 reports
- Catheter
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13,804 reports
- Excimer Laser…
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13,777 reports
What this shows Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum carries 13,919 MAUDE reports, ranked #181 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 (2,889) held close to the prior two-year average of 2,415.
Related Entities for Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Endoscope, Accessories, Narrow Band Spectrum: 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 (13,919 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.