da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED, THAT WHILE MOBILIZING THE LEFT INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY DURING A DA VINCI S CABG PROCEDURE, THE MICRO BIPOLAR FORCEPS (MBF) INSTRUMENT JUMPED FORWARD AND PUNCTURED THE PATIENT'S ARTERY. THE DAMAGED SECTION OF THE ARTERY WAS TRANSECTED AND THE HEALTHY PORTION OF THE ARTERY WAS USED TO COMPLETE THE BYPASS. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED THAT THROUGHOUT THE CASE, PNEUMO WAS ESTABLISHED AND LOST SEVERAL TIMES. THE ISI REPRESENTATIVE PRESENT DURING THE PROCEDURE INDICATED THAT PRIOR TO THE MBF INSTRUMENT JUMP, THE SURGEON NOTED THAT WHEN THE MASTER TOOL MANIPULATOR WAS MOVED, THE INSTRUMENT FELT STUCK AND THEN MOVED. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE SURGEON CAUGHT THE MBF INSTRUMENT IN THE PATIENT'S RIB. THE PLANNED SURGICAL PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED WITH NO FURTHER ISSUES OR PATIENT HARM.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED BY THE PT THAT SHE RECENTLY HAD A DA VINCI HYSTERECTOMY PROCEDURE AND WAS UNDER ANESTHESIA FOR 8 HOURS INSTEAD OF THE EXPECTED 4 HOURS DUE TO HER BEING SEVERELY OVERWEIGHT. SHE STATED THAT SHE WOKE UP AND WAS UNABLE TO MOVE EITHER OF HER ARMS, HOWEVER, AFTER TIME, SHE WAS ABLE TO GET FULL USE OF HER LEFT ARM. SHE STATED HER RIGHT ARM IS STILL IN A LOT OF PAIN.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE DAY FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL DA VINCI SI PROSTATECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE PT DEVELOPED COMPARTMENT SYNDROME IN THEIR RIGHT ARM. A SURGICAL PROCEDURE WAS PERFORMED TO RELIEVE PRESSURE TO THE PT'S AFFECTED AREA. NO ADD'L PT HARM, ADVERSE OUTCOME OR INJURY WAS REPORTED.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2009, A REUTERS ARTICLE TITLED "MEDICAL SOCIETIES PUSH STANDARDS FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY" WAS PUBLISHED. THE ARTICLE INCLUDES QUOTES FROM DR. KEVIN ZORN AND MENTIONS HIS RECOUNT OF A CASE WHERE A PATIENT DIED POST A DA VINCI PROSTATECTOMY PROCEDURE: "HE RECOUNTED ONE CASE OF A SURGEON WHO WAS USING THE SYSTEM FOR THE FOURTH TIME. AFTER EIGHT HOURS OF SURGERY, THE PROCTOR -- AN EXPERIENCED SURGEON WHO SUPERVISES THE OPERATION -- TOLD THE SURGEON THAT PROGRESS WAS TOO SLOW. HE RECOMMENDED THE SURGEON SWITCH TO CONVENTIONAL SURGERY, WHERE AN INCISION IS MADE FROM THE NAVEL TO THE PUBIC BONE TO ACCESS THE PROSTATE. AFTER THE PROCTOR LEFT THE OPERATING ROOM, THE SURGEON CONTINUED USING THE ROBOT. THE PATIENT LATER DIED FROM COMPLICATIONS." ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2009, UPON FOLLOWING UP, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT ANOTHER DR WAS THE PROCTOR.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT TOWARD THE END OF A DA VINCI S SACRALCOPOPEXY PROCEDURE, THE CONSOLE SURGEON EXPERIENCED USER MESSAGE "LIGHTEN GRIP". THE CONSOLE SURGEON ATTEMPTED TO TROUBLESHOOT THE SYSTEM ERROR BY RELEASING THE GRIPS ON THE MASTER TOOL MANIPULATORS (MTM); HOWEVER, THE SYSTEM ERROR PERSISTED. THE CONSOLE SURGEON THEN PLACED THEIR HEAD BACK INTO THE HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO VIEWER (HSRV) LOCATED ON THE SURGEON'S CONSOLE AND ACCIDENTLY CLUTCHED AND CHANGED CONTROL OF THE PATIENT SIDE MANIPULATOR (PSM) FROM PSM 2 TO PSM 3. THE SURGEON WAS UNCLEAR WHY THE INSTRUMENT ON THE PSM 2 WAS NOT MOVING WHEN SHE NOTICED THAT SHE HAD ACCIDENTLY CLUTCHED AND GAINED CONTROL OF THE INSTRUMENT IN PSM 3. AT THIS POINT, THE SURGEON HAD ALREADY MOVED PSM 3 WITH INSTRUMENT DOWN CAUSING THE INSTRUMENT TO MAKE CONTACT AND INJURING THE PATIENT'S SACRAL. THE CASE WAS CONVERTED TO A TRADITIONAL OPEN PROCEDURE AND THE PATIENT'S INJURY WAS REPAIRED AND THE PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED. AS OF 2009, THE PATIENT WAS REPORTED AS DOING WELL WITH NO FURTHER ISSUES.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT 4 DAYS POST OP, A DA VINCI SI HYSTERECTOMY PROCEDURE, A 5MM PERFORATION OF THE PT'S BOWEL WAS OBSERVED DURING A LAPAROSCOPIC COLOSTOMY PROCEDURE. IN 2009, THE SURGEON PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL INFO: PRE-OPERATIVELY, THE PT EXPERIENCED COMPLICATIONS OF SEVERE BOWEL IMPACTION (HARD STOOL) THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LARGE INTESTINE DUE TO DIVERTICULOSIS. THE PT'S BOWEL WAS INFUSED WITH AN ENEMA AND CONTRAST ALL THE WAY TO THE CECUM TO AID IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE PT'S BOWEL. IN ADDITION, THE PT HAD A COLOSTOMY TUBE THAT PRESENTED LEAKAGE THUS CAUSING THE PT TO DEVELOP AN INFECTION. IT IS UNK HOW DAMAGE TO THE PT'S BOWEL OCCURRED; HOWEVER, THE PERFORATION MAY HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED DURING THE ENEMA AND CONTRAST PROCEDURE. THE PT REMAINS HOSPITALIZED AS OF THE SAME DAY. IN ADDITION, THE INFECTION IS UNDER CONTROL AND THE PT IS REPORTED TO BE DOING WELL.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT POST A DA VINCI S THYROIDECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED NUMBNESS, DUE TO RADIAL NERVE DAMAGE.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI S HYSTERECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE SURGEON ACTIVATED THAT MONOPOLAR CURVED SCISSORS (MCS) INSTRUMENT WHILE IT WAS OUT OF THEIR FIELD OF VIEW AND ACCIDENTLY LACERATED THE PATIENT'S RIGHT EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY. THE PLANNED SURGICAL PROCEDURE WAS CONVERTED TO AN OPEN PROCEDURE AND THE DAMAGE TO THE PATIENT'S ARTERY WAS REPAIRED USING A PRIMARY CLOSURE TECHNIQUE. THE PATIENT WAS REPORTED TO BE DOING WELL AND HAS NOT EXPERIENCED ANY POST OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IN 2008, IT WAS REPORTED THAT AFTER A SUCCESSFUL DA VINCI S MITRA VALVE REPAIR PROCEDURE, THE PT DEVELOPED COMPLICATIONS RELATED TO A HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA. AS A RESULT, THE PT'S LEG WAS AMPUTATED. NO ADDITIONAL INFO HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THIS SITE DESPITE ATTEMPTS.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: DURING A ROBOTIC DAVINCI CASE THE INSTRUMENT ARM GRASPER BROKE INSIDE PT, BUT STAYING INTACT. AFTER COMPLETION OF CASE A CUTDOWN WAS PERFORMED AT THE INCISION SITE ALLOWING REMOVAL OF INSTRUMENT. OP REPORT: INSTRUMENT THROUGH 3RD DAVINCI ARM SNAPPED AT LEVEL OF PORT AND GIVEN ANGULATION; WAS DIFFICULT TO REMOVE THROUGH POA. AT THE END OF THE CASE, ARM WAS MANIPULATED AND INSTRUMENT WAS PULLED ALONG WITH ARM AFTER EXTENDING INCISION BY 2-3CM. PELVIC CAVITY WAS IRRIGATED, FRAGMENTS FROM INSTRUMENT SHEATH WERE REMOVED.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT THREE DAYS AFTER A SUCCESSFUL DA VINCI S HYSTERECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE PT WAS RE-ADMITTED TO THE HOSP WITH A TEMPERATURE AND PERITONITIS SYMPTOMS. TWO DAYS AFTER BEING ADMITTED, A DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY PROCEDURE WAS PERFORMED, RESULTING IN THE DISCOVERY OF EIGHT SITES ON THE PT'S SIGMOID COLON NEEDING OVER SEWING. SIX OF THE EIGHT SITES WERE IDENTIFIED AS THERMAL BURNS. NO ADDITIONAL PT HARM, ADVERSE OUTCOME OR INJURY WAS REPORTED.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT POST A DA VINCI HYSTERECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE PT DEVELOPED RIGHT SHOULDER PARALYSIS. REPORTEDLY, PRIOR TO STARTING THE PLANNED SURGICAL PROCEDURE, THE SITE EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTIES PLACING THE PT IN THE TRENDELENBURG POSITION AND THE PT EXPERIENCED LABORED BREATHING.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT POST A DA VINCI S SACROCOLPOPEXY PROCEDURE, THE PT DEVELOPED DEEP VIN THROMBOSIS (DVT). NO ADDITIONAL PT HARM OR ADVERSE OUTCOME WAS REPORTED.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT POST A DA VINCI S PROSTATECTOMY PROCEDURE, THE PATIENT DEVELOPED BILATERAL LEG NERVE PALSY. NO ADDITIONAL PATIENT HARM OR ADVERSE OUTCOME WAS REPORTED.

da Vinci Surgical System — Injury report filed with FDA (MAUDE). A MAUDE report does not establish that the device caused the outcome. Reported narrative: IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A DA VINCI SURGICAL PROCEDURE, THE ENDOSCOPE TIP BECAME VERY HOT AND BURNT THE PATIENT'S BOWEL. SURGICAL INTERVENTION WAS NOT REQUIRED, AND THE PLANNED PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ISSUES.