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 MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Nasopharyngoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#281 of 1000 · 6,163 reports · 2001–2026
- BOOK 6,163 reports
- RANK #281 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 101 injury-typed
- MALF 6,056 malfunction
- SPAN 2001–2026
- PEAK 2024: 1,498
- PHOTO System
Nearest event-volume peer: System, Blood Culturing (29 report gap)
Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) sits #281 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,163 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 →
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 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 1.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.8 pp)
- MALF 98.3% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+33.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 30% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX TOKYO OFFICE accounts for 74% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 94% of location-tagged rows .
Nasopharyngoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- System
System, Imaging, Pulsed Echo, Ultrasonic
6,335 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Ankle, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
6,304 reports
- Device
Device, Thermal Ablation, Endometrial
6,244 reports
- System
System, Blood Culturing
6,192 reports
- Nasopharyngos… (this)
Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)
6,163 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Intervertebral Disc
6,025 reports
What this shows Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) carries 6,163 MAUDE reports, ranked #281 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
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 similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nasopharyngoscope, 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 (6,163 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.