As if the Intuitive Surgical wasn’t facing enough problems with its da Vinci Surgical Robot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the mechanical arms on some of the da Vinci robots could stall during robotic surgery, which...
FDA Issues Class II Recall on Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Surgical Robot
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class II recall of Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci surgical robots due to inadequate testing of thirty units.
Class II recalls indicate “a situation in which use of or exposure to a...
Victims of Surgical Robot Accident Ask to Centralize and Transfer Cases
(May 19, 2012) On May 9, two victims of a surgical robot, which caused them injury, filed a motion to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize and transfer all federal surgical robot cases, as they claim that...