Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser
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 Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#317 of 1000 · 4,856 reports · 2011–2026
- BOOK 4,856 reports
- RANK #317 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 2,810 injury-typed
- MALF 1,962 malfunction
- SPAN 2011–2026
- PEAK 2015: 689
- PHOTO Accessories
Nearest event-volume peer: Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope (1 report gap)
Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser sits #317 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,856 MAUDE reports spanning 2011–2026. 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 57.9% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+27.4 pp)
- MALF 40.4% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-24.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer WAVELIGHT GMBH accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Accessories
Accessories, Arthroscopic
4,870 reports
- Accessories
Accessories, Cleaning, For Endoscope
4,857 reports
- Ophthalmic Fe… (this)
Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser
4,856 reports
- Ureteroscope…
Ureteroscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid
4,829 reports
- Stimulator
Stimulator, Nerve
4,827 reports
- Lenses
Lenses, Soft Contact, Daily Wear
4,769 reports
What this shows Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser carries 4,856 MAUDE reports, ranked #317 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 Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare WAVELIGHT GMBH vs ALCON RESEARCH, LLC - IRVINE TECHNOLOGY CENTER →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser, 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 (4,856 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser 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 Ophthalmic Femtosecond Laser; 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.