2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Laryngoscope, Endoscope

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 Laryngoscope, Endoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#534 of 1000 · 1,616 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 1,616 reports
  • RANK #534 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 112 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,491 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 177
  • PHOTO Microfilter

Nearest event-volume peer: Microfilter, Blood Transfusion (1 report gap)

Laryngoscope, Endoscope sits #534 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,616 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 →

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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 6.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
  • MALF 92.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+27.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 46% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD accounts for 64% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Laryngoscope, Endoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Laryngoscope, Endoscope carries 1,616 MAUDE reports, ranked #534 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,491 (92.3%)
Injury 112 (6.9%)
Other 8 (0.5%)
Death 3 (0.2%)
2 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

1,482 (90.4%)
Required Intervention 62 (3.8%)
Other 59 (3.6%)
R 19 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 10 (0.6%)
H 3 (0.2%)
Death 3 (0.2%)
O 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Material Split, Cut or Torn 617
Detachment of Device or Device Component 186
Torn Material 151
Break 127
Material Separation 99
Detachment Of Device Component 58
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 20
Difficult to Remove 11
Material Rupture 11
Difficult to Insert 7
Insufficient Information 7
Difficult to Open or Close 6
Device Difficult to Maintain 5
Defective Device 4
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 4
Mechanics Altered 4
Bent 3
Entrapment of Device 3
Material Fragmentation 3
Material Puncture/Hole 3

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 1
96
1996: 1
04
2004: 1
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 7
10
2010: 19
11
2011: 49
12
2012: 55
13
2013: 50
14
2014: 106
15
2015: 177
16
2016: 100
17
2017: 130
18
2018: 102
19
2019: 135
20
2020: 129
21
2021: 96
22
2022: 102
23
2023: 101
24
2024: 119
25
2025: 122
26
2026: 11

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Event Locations

823 (50.9%)
I 724 (44.8%)
HOSPITAL 52 (3.2%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD vs COVIDIEN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Laryngoscope, Endoscope, 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 (1,616 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Laryngoscope, Endoscope 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 Laryngoscope, Endoscope; 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.