Laryngoscope, 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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §868.5540 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Laryngoscope, Rigid LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#259 of 1000 · 7,361 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 7,361 reports
- RANK #259 of 1000
- DEATH 68 death-typed
- INJ 278 injury-typed
- MALF 6,982 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2025: 1,578
- PHOTO Nail, Fixation, Bone
Nearest event-volume peer: Nail, Fixation, Bone (131 report gap)
Laryngoscope, Rigid sits #259 of 1000 among tracked device types with 7,361 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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, Rigid carries 94.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.9% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.6 pp)
- INJ 3.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.5 pp)
- MALF 94.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code No Display/Image is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 50% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .
Laryngoscope, Rigid in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Knife
Knife, Ophthalmic
7,502 reports
- Insufflator
Insufflator, Laparoscopic
7,499 reports
- Laryngoscope (this)
Laryngoscope, Rigid
7,361 reports
- Nail
Nail, Fixation, Bone
7,230 reports
- Stent, Iliac
Stent, Iliac
7,218 reports
- Hemostatic Me…
Hemostatic Metal Clip For The Gi Tract
7,146 reports
What this shows Laryngoscope, Rigid carries 7,361 MAUDE reports, ranked #259 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 1,578 in 2025, up from an average of 410 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Laryngoscope, Rigid
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Laryngoscope, 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 (7,361 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (68 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Laryngoscope, 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 Laryngoscope, 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.