S3 · 07/2025 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 07/2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2025-29781 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI-ASSISTED BARIATRIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE, THE SURGEON DISCOVERED FRAGMENTS WERE BROKEN OFF FROM THE GASKET OF THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT. THE DEVICE FRAGMENT FELL INSIDE THE PATIENT WHILE GRASPING, WHICH THE SURGEON BELIEVES WAS CAUSED BY INTR
| 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 |