Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery, Reprocessed
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 Laparoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#918 of 1000 · 468 reports · 2006–2026
- BOOK 468 reports
- RANK #918 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 47 injury-typed
- MALF 418 malfunction
- SPAN 2006–2026
- PEAK 2013: 102
- PHOTO Clip, Hemostatic
Nearest event-volume peer: Clip, Hemostatic (0 report gap)
Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery, Reprocessed sits #918 of 1000 among tracked device types with 468 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 → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Laparoscope carries 89.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.5pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 10.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-20.3 pp)
- MALF 89.3% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Leak/Splash is 34% of coded problems · Top event location is 76% of location-tagged rows .
Laparoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Laparoscope (this)
Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery, Reprocessed
468 reports
- Clip
Clip, Hemostatic
468 reports
- Injector
Injector, Fluid, Non-Electrically Powered
467 reports
- Test
Test, Natriuretic Peptide
467 reports
- Connector
Connector, Airway (Extension)
466 reports
- Infant Heel W…
Infant Heel Warmer (Chemical Heat Pack)
466 reports
What this shows Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery, Reprocessed carries 468 MAUDE reports, ranked #918 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 11 in 2025, up from an average of 5 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Laparoscope, General & Plastic Surgery, Reprocessed
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Laparoscope: 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 (468 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 Laparoscope 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 Laparoscope; 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.