S5 · 04/2020 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 04/2020 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2020-10273 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
BASED ON THE CURRENT INFORMATION PROVIDED, THE CAUSE OF THE AIR EMBOLISM AND PATIENT DEATH ARE UNKNOWN. THERE IS NO ALLEGATION THAT A MALFUNCTION OF A DA VINCI SYSTEM, INSTRUMENT, OR ACCESSORY OCCURRED. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS ALSO UNKNOWN: THE TYPE OF DA VINCI-ASSISTED UROL
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