S5 · 02/2022 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 02/2022 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2022-10269 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI-ASSISTED PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY PROCEDURE, A THIRD PARTY STAPLER INSTRUMENT WAS USED ON UNSPECIFIED TISSUE. THE STAPLE LINE REPORTEDLY DID NOT HOLD AND CAUSED THE PATIENT TO BLEED TO DEATH. AT THIS TIME, THERE ARE NO KNOWN ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A
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