Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or 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 §874.4760 (Ear, Nose, Throat panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Nasopharyngoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#254 of 1000 · 7,691 reports · 2001–2026
- BOOK 7,691 reports
- RANK #254 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 108 injury-typed
- MALF 7,577 malfunction
- SPAN 2001–2026
- PEAK 2026: 1,783
- PHOTO Device
Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Microtiter Diluting/Dispensing (21 report gap)
Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) sits #254 of 1000 among tracked device types with 7,691 MAUDE reports spanning 2001–2026. 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
Nasopharyngoscope carries 98.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 1.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-28.9 pp)
- MALF 98.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+33.7 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE accounts for 62% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 95% of location-tagged rows .
Nasopharyngoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Catheter
Catheter, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (Ptca), Cutting/Scoring
7,737 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Embolectomy
7,736 reports
- Device
Device, Microtiter Diluting/Dispensing
7,712 reports
- Nasopharyngos… (this)
Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
7,691 reports
- System
System, X-Ray, Angiographic
7,625 reports
- Glucose Oxida…
Glucose Oxidase, Glucose
7,604 reports
What this shows Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) carries 7,691 MAUDE reports, ranked #254 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 (1,356) held close to the prior two-year average of 1,425.
Related Entities for Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE vs SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nasopharyngoscope: 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 (7,691 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 Nasopharyngoscope 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 Nasopharyngoscope; 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.