S5 · 05/2022 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 05/2022 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2022-11468 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS INITIALLY REPORTED THAT AFTER UNDERGOING TWO UNSPECIFIED SURGICAL PROCEDURES INVOLVING THE PROSTATE, TWO PATIENTS SUBSEQUENTLY CONTRACTED COVID-19 AND EXPIRED. PRIOR TO UNDERGOING THE SURGICAL PROCEDURES, THE PATIENTS HAD TESTED NEGATIVE FOR COVID-19 PRIOR TO THE PROCEDURE
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
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| S4 | Neuralink | Federal inquiry into Neuralink over animal deaths in implant testing |