It was reported that during a hysterectomy, the tip of the reprocessed harmonic ace®+ shears w/o adaptive tissue technology 36cm broke off and fell into surgical site.Per report, the device tip was successfully retrieved from the patient through an unidentified method.There was no report of a serious injury, an adverse patient consequence or prolonged anesthesia related to this incident.Due to the reported event and required medical intervention to retrieve the device tip from the surgical site, this medwatch is being filed.The device is not available to be returned for evaluation.A definitive root cause could not be determined at this time.No additional information is available.If additional information becomes available, a supplemental medwatch will be filed.
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