2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

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.

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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

reports

What this shows Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid) carries 6,163 MAUDE reports, ranked #281 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 6,056 (98.3%)
Injury 101 (1.6%)
Other 4 (0.1%)
1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

6,024 (98.0%)
Other 81 (1.3%)
Required Intervention 27 (0.4%)
R 3 (0.0%)
Hospitalization 3 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.0%)
O 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)
Disability 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 1,750
Fluid/Blood Leak 1,276
No Display/Image 711
Erratic or Intermittent Display 309
Detachment of Device or Device Component 291
Optical Obstruction 279
Failure to Clean Adequately 249
Device Reprocessing Problem 204
Optical Distortion 126
Peeled/Delaminated 98
Poor Quality Image 87
Material Split, Cut or Torn 71
Unintended Movement 66
Material Separation 57
Corroded 53
Contamination 46
Degraded 43
Crack 38
Optical Problem 35
Component Missing 34

Yearly Trend

01
2001: 4
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 3
04
2004: 1
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 1
09
2009: 3
11
2011: 3
12
2012: 4
13
2013: 5
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 13
16
2016: 16
17
2017: 18
18
2018: 23
19
2019: 51
20
2020: 47
21
2021: 345
22
2022: 1,158
23
2023: 1,352
24
2024: 1,498
25
2025: 1,356
26
2026: 255

Related Entities for Nasopharyngoscope (Flexible Or Rigid)

Event Locations

5,818 (94.4%)
I 285 (4.6%)
HOSPITAL 43 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.1%)
OTHER 3 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

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.

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.