Endoscope, 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 §876.1500 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Endoscope, Rigid LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#573 of 1000 · 1,495 reports · 1996–2026
- BOOK 1,495 reports
- RANK #573 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 11 injury-typed
- MALF 1,482 malfunction
- SPAN 1996–2026
- PEAK 2025: 616
- PHOTO Instrument
Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Cutting, Orthopedic (1 report gap)
Endoscope, Rigid sits #573 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,495 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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, Rigid carries 99.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 0.7% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.6 pp)
- MALF 99.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Poor Quality Image is 41% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH accounts for 98% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 98% of location-tagged rows .
Endoscope, Rigid in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Sterilizer
Sterilizer, Steam
1,502 reports
- Patch
Patch, Pledget And Intracardiac, Petp, Ptfe, Polypropylene
1,498 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Cutting, Orthopedic
1,496 reports
- Endoscope (this)
Endoscope, Rigid
1,495 reports
- Washer
Washer, Bolt Nut
1,494 reports
- Radioimmunoas…
Radioimmunoassay, Parathyroid Hormone
1,479 reports
What this shows Endoscope, Rigid carries 1,495 MAUDE reports, ranked #573 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 rose to 616 in 2025, up from an average of 226 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Endoscope, Rigid
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH vs Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Endoscope, Rigid: 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 (1,495 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Endoscope, Rigid 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, Rigid; 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.