S3 · 07/2024 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 07/2024 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2024-16631 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
THE HARMONIC ACE INSTRUMENT WAS RECEIVED AND FAILURE ANALYSIS EVALUATION WAS PERFORMED. THE INSTRUMENT WAS FOUND TO HAVE TO BLADE BROKEN AT THE MIDPOINT. A PIECE APPROXIMATELY 0.078" X 0.392" WAS FOUND TO BE BROKEN OFF. THE BROKEN PIECE WAS NOT RETURNED. COMPONENTS ADJACENT TO TH
| 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 |