S5 · 07/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 07/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-32985 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
NO PRODUCTS WERE RETURNED FOR FAILURE ANALYSIS AS THE INSTRUMENT WAS DISCARDED AT THE HOSPITAL. REVIEW OF THE SYSTEM LOGS FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROCEDURE SHOWS THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS RELATING TO THIS EVENT. LOG REVIEW OF THE 5 SUBSEQUENT PR
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