S3 · 12/2024 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 12/2024 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2024-23228 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT WAS RECEIVED AND FAILURE ANALYSIS FOUND THE INSERT WAS FOUND TO HAVE A BLADE BROKEN. THE BLADE BROKE AT ROUGHLY THE BASE. A PIECE WAS FOUND TO BE BROKEN OFF. BROKEN PIECE WAS NOT RETURNED.
| 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 |