S3 · 10/2023 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 10/2023 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2023-18897 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
AN INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THIS REPORTED EVENT. INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. (ISI) RECEIVED THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT AND PERFORMED FAILURE ANALYSIS. THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT WAS ANALYZED AND FOUND TO HAVE A BROKEN BLADE. THE BLADE BROKE AT ROUGHLY
| 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 |