S3 · 12/2025 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 12/2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2025-47852 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI-ASSISTED RADICAL CYSTECTOMY PROCEDURE, A PIECE FROM ONE OF THE JAWS OF THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT BROKE OFF AND FELL INSIDE THE PATIENT. THE DEVICE FRAGMENT FELL INSIDE THE PATIENT WHILE THE SURGEON GRIPPING TISSUE AND AS THE DOCTOR WAS TAK
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | 2015-06-30 | Hocoma | Proximal tibia fracture in a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury associated with robotic treadmill training |