S5 · 10/2023 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 10/2023 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2023-19485 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
DURING INVESTIGATION OF AN UNRELATED EVENT, A SURGEON NOTIFIED AN INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. (ISI) CLINICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER (ME), WHILE PROVIDING AUTOPSY RESULTS FOR THE UNRELATED EVENT, "RECALLED TWO PREVIOUS PATIENT DEATHS CAUSED BY ROBOTIC S
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