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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §876.1500 (Gastroenterology, Urology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Laryngoscope, Endoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#541 of 1000 · 1,664 reports · 1993–2026
- BOOK 1,664 reports
- RANK #541 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 113 injury-typed
- MALF 1,538 malfunction
- SPAN 1993–2026
- PEAK 2015: 177
- PHOTO Adhesive
Nearest event-volume peer: Adhesive, Denture, Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium (32%) And Ethylene-Oxide Homopolymer (1 report gap)
Laryngoscope, Endoscope sits #541 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,664 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Laryngoscope, Endoscope carries 92.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 27.6pp 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 6.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
- MALF 92.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+27.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Split, Cut or Torn is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DAVIS & GECK CARIBE LTD accounts for 65% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 52% of location-tagged rows .
Laryngoscope, Endoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Positioner
Positioner, Tooth, Preformed
1,674 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous, Neurovasculature
1,669 reports
- Assay
Assay, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent, Hepatitis C Virus
1,668 reports
- Laryngoscope (this)
Laryngoscope, Endoscope
1,664 reports
- Adhesive
Adhesive, Denture, Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium (32%) And Ethylene-Oxide Homopolymer
1,663 reports
- Processor
Processor, Tissue, Automated
1,657 reports
What this shows Laryngoscope, Endoscope carries 1,664 MAUDE reports, ranked #541 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 (122) held close to the prior two-year average of 110.
Related Entities for Laryngoscope, Endoscope
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Laryngoscope, Endoscope: 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 (1,664 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.