Intuitive Surgical (da Vinci-compatible surgical staplers)

Analyst brief

This entity's record contains a single entry, an FDA emergency alert issued in March 2026 concerning da Vinci-compatible surgical stapler reloads following one reported death, carrying severity 4. The resulting index of 26.9 places the entity at the 83.9th percentile within the other category, an elevated band. The record is regulatory in nature, driven by an FDA safety alert rather than press incident coverage. As a single-entry record tied to a device-reload issue, it is scoped narrowly to that alert and does not by itself establish a broader pattern within this entity's record.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

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