Recall
Patient Cart, Part: 380601, a component of the da Vinci SP Surgical System, Model: SP1098
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 13 March 2024
- Status
- Recall open, classified
- Why, in the FDA's words
- “Surgical system may have inadequately welded top and/or bottom belts in the link 2 of the entry guide manipulator assembly/instrument arm joints, that may cause the following, 1) Top Failure: internal tissue injuries, body wall injury or emergent conversion to open surgery, 2) Bottom failure: pinching injury to the user with no harm to the patient.”
- Recall began
- 13 March 2024
- Company
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
- Device type
- Robot-assisted surgical systems (computer-controlled instruments) (NAY)
What it means
A recall is the FDA's record that a company is correcting or removing a device because of a problem. Many are fixed with a software update or new instructions; the record does not say whether anyone was hurt. See our plain guide to FDA terms.
The record
The FDA publishes this record in its public device database. The summary documents the company filed, when available, are linked from the FDA's page.