S3 · 04/2025 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 04/2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR MW5168573 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
WHILE PERFORMING A ROBOTIC RIGHT INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR THE BIPOLAR FORCEPS SUPERFICIALLY SNAGGED THE PATIENT'S BOWEL INTESTINE. THE DOCTOR REMOVED THE BIPOLAR FORCEPS AND STITCHED THE BOWEL. UPON REMOVAL OF THE INSTRUMENT, IT WAS NOTED TO BE BROKEN. THE INSTRUMENT HAD BEEN USED
| 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 |