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MAUDE death report 2955842-2022-11455 (da Vinci)

S5 · 05/2022 · Intuitive Surgical

Record

CompanyIntuitive Surgical
Categorymedical robotics
Typefatality
Date05/2022
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
ScaleMDR 2955842-2022-11455
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceopenFDA MAUDE

What happened

AN ISI INTERNAL MEDICAL SAFETY OFFICER PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING AFTER REVIEWING THE CASE INFORMATION: BASED UPON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE JOURNAL BRASILEIRO DE PNEUMOLOGIA ARTICLE TITLED, ¿ROBOTIC THORACIC SURGERY FOR NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: INITIAL EXPERIENCE IN BRAZIL¿

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