S5 · 03/2025 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 03/2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2025-05720 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI-ASSISTED MEDIASTINAL MASS RESECTION, THE BRACHIOCEPHALIC ARTERY WAS INJURED AND THE PROCEDURE WAS CONVERTED TO OPEN. THE PATIENT EXPIRED ON POST-OPERATIVE DAY ONE. THE SURGEON REPORTED THAT THE ARTERY WAS INJURED WHEN USING THE SYNCHROSEAL I
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