S5 · 07/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 07/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-33713 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
It was reported that during a da Vinci-assisted sliding hiatal hernia procedure, after sealing and cutting of an unspecified branch of the aorta, bleeding occurred and the patient ultimately expired.The surgeon reported that the Vessel Sealer Curved (VSC) instrument seal and cut
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