S5 · 06/2022 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 06/2022 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR MW5110378 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
THE PATIENT HAD A MILD HERNIA THAT NEEDED REPAIR. IT WAS DONE ROBOTICALLY USING THE DAVINCI SYSTEM. THE PATIENT HAD A PUNCTURED ARTERY AND A LACERATED BOWEL FROM SURGICAL ERRORS DURING THE PROCEDURE. THERE WAS EXTENSIVE INTERNAL BLEEDING. THE PATIENT BECAME SEPTIC AND WITHIN THRE
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