Category
Surgical robots incidents
Specific, dated cases in which a robot-assisted surgery system was involved in patient harm, most of them known through litigation or regulator reports.
- 3
- Incidents recorded
- 1
- Death
- 1
- Reported injuries
- 2005–21
- Years covered
3 records
Most recent first- Fatal
Suit alleges da Vinci robot burned patient's intestine in Florida surgery
A 2024 federal lawsuit alleged that a da Vinci surgical robot burned a patient's small intestine during colon cancer surgery in Boca Raton in September 2021, leading to her death.
- Serious injury
Patient severely injured in 2008 da Vinci prostatectomy in Washington state
A patient suffered a rectal laceration and lasting complications in a da Vinci robotic prostatectomy at Harrison Medical Center on September 9, 2008; the case reached the state high court.
- Disruption
da Vinci robot allegedly failed with errors mid-surgery in Pennsylvania
A patient alleged that a da Vinci surgical robot displayed error messages and could not be restarted during his June 9, 2005 prostatectomy; courts rejected his claim against the maker.