S5 · 06/2024 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 06/2024 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2024-14687 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PATIENT UNDERWENT AN UNEVENTFUL DA VINCI ASSISTED LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION FOR COLORECTAL CANCER. THE SURGEON STATED THAT THE ANASTOMOSIS WAS END-TO-END, CREATED WITH AN ETHICON ILS 29 CIRCULAR STAPLER. TESTING OF THE ANASTOMOSIS WAS PERFORMED DURING THE OP
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
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