Intuitive surgical, inc.
(isi) received the instrument involved with this complaint and completed the device evaluation.
Failure analysis confirmed the customer reported failure.
The instrument was found to have a broken pitch cable at the distal clevis hub.
The broken cable segment that contains the crimp was missing in the clevis.
Missing crimp was approximately 0.
046" x 0.
032".
The clevis did not exhibit any damage or wear marks.
Isi has conducted a device history record (dhr) review for this device and did not find any non-conformances that were related to this reported event.
The customer reported complaint does not itself constitute an mdr reportable event; however, the broken pitch cable found during failure analysis could cause or contribute to an adverse event if the malfunction were to recur.
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It was reported that during a da vinci-assisted colostomy closure surgical procedure, a cable on the grasping retractor instrument broke.
There was no report of fragment(s) falling inside the patient, patient harm, adverse outcome or injury.
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