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MAUDE death report 2955842-2024-21591 (da Vinci)

S5 · 11/2024 · Intuitive Surgical

Record

CompanyIntuitive Surgical
Categorymedical robotics
Typefatality
Date11/2024
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
ScaleMDR 2955842-2024-21591
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceopenFDA MAUDE

What happened

THIS MEDWATCH REPORT REPRESENTS THE SYNCHROSEAL INSTRUMENT. SEE SECTION H10 RELATED REPORT NUMBER FOR THE USM3 ARM DEVICE. AN INTUITIVE FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER (FSE) TESTED THE DA VINCI SYSTEM ON SITE AND COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE REPORTED ERRORS. DURING TESTING, THE FSE NOTICED SLI

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