FDA Adverse Event Malfunction Summary report: N

SNAP-FIT

MDR report key: 3190310 · Received June 18, 2013

Report

Report Number
3190310
Event Type
Malfunction
Date Received
June 18, 2013
Date of Event
June 13, 2013
Report Date
June 18, 2013
Manufacturer
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.
Product Code
NAY
Product Problem
Yes
Report Source
User Facility report
Reporter Location
PA, US

Narratives

Description of Event or Problem · 1

SNAPFIT SCALPEL WHICH ATTACHES TO THE INSTRUMENT CAME OFF OF INSTRUMENT WHEN SURGEON WAS ROBOTICALLY BIFURCATING THE UTERUS. ABDOMEN WAS SEARCHED ROBOTICALLY AND THE SCALPEL WAS RECOVERED AND NOTED TO BE BENT BUT INTACT. PER SURGEON, MAY HAVE BEEN BENT FROM STRESS AND LONG USE WITH A VERY LARGE FIBROID IN UTERUS.WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL INTENDED PROCEDURE?PATIENT WITH HISTORY OF FIBOIDS AND ENDOMETRIOSIS. UNDERWENT ROBOTIC LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY REMOVED WITH MORCELLATION, BILATERAL SALPINGECTOMY, AND APPENDECTOMY. PATIENT HAD A 16-WEEK SIZE MULTILOBULAR FIBROID UTERUS WITH SAPROPHYTIC CONNECTIONS OF HER UTERUS AND FIBROIDS TO THE BOWEL.DEVICE #1IS THIS A LABORATORY DEVICE OR LABORATORY TEST?NO.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
277297 SNAP-FIT SYSTEM,SURGICAL,COMPUTER CONTROLLED INSTRUMENT NAY INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. * MAZZ690 AND M10121105

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 43 YR