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MAUDE injury report MW5167636 (da Vinci)

S3 · 03/2025 · Intuitive Surgical

Record

CompanyIntuitive Surgical
Categorymedical robotics
Typeinjury
Date03/2025
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
ScaleMDR MW5167636
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceopenFDA MAUDE

What happened

STAPLER WAS CLAMPED ONTO STOMACH TISSUE AND FROZE - IT WOULD NOT FIRE, IT WOULD NOT RELEASE. THE EMERGENCY BUTTON WAS PUSHED AND STAPLER REMOVED MANUALLY.

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