Ultrasound Bronchoscope
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 §892.1550 (Radiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Ultrasound Bronchoscope LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#293 of 1000 · 5,860 reports · 2016–2026
- BOOK 5,860 reports
- RANK #293 of 1000
- DEATH 7 death-typed
- INJ 378 injury-typed
- MALF 5,475 malfunction
- SPAN 2016–2026
- PEAK 2026: 2,284
- PHOTO Blade
Nearest event-volume peer: Blade, Saw, General & Plastic Surgery, Surgical (1 report gap)
Ultrasound Bronchoscope sits #293 of 1000 among tracked device types with 5,860 MAUDE reports spanning 2016–2026. 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
Ultrasound Bronchoscope carries 93.4% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.6pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 6.5% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.8 pp)
- MALF 93.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+28.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 21% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. accounts for 87% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 92% of location-tagged rows .
Ultrasound Bronchoscope in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Drug-Eluting…
Drug-Eluting Peripheral Transluminal Angioplasty Catheter
5,888 reports
- Blade
Blade, Saw, General & Plastic Surgery, Surgical
5,861 reports
- Ultrasound Br… (this)
Ultrasound Bronchoscope
5,860 reports
- Stent
Stent, Ureteral
5,858 reports
- Holder
Holder, Head, Neurosurgical (Skull Clamp)
5,826 reports
- Extended Dept…
Extended Depth Of Focus Intraocular Lens
5,816 reports
What this shows Ultrasound Bronchoscope carries 5,860 MAUDE reports, ranked #293 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 1,491 in 2025, up from an average of 672 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Ultrasound Bronchoscope
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SHIRAKAWA OLYMPUS CO., LTD. vs OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Ultrasound Bronchoscope: 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 (5,860 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (7 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Ultrasound Bronchoscope 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 Ultrasound Bronchoscope; 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.