The MachineRecord
RegistryTMR-0102

Michelle Zarick alleged that inadequately insulated electrified scissors on the da Vinci robotic surgical system caused internal injuries during a 2009 hysterectomy, resulting in intestinal prolapse and emergency surgery requiring a hip-to-hip incision.

Serious injurylawsuitsurgicalIntuitive Surgical
Date of incident
2009-01-01
Location
San Jose, California, USA
Sources
1
EscalationReport

Established by press reporting. No regulator or court document is linked to this case yet.

Timeline

How the event developed

  1. 2016-04-07Report

    Michelle Zarick alleged that inadequately insulated electrified scissors on the da Vinci robotic surgical system caused internal injuries during a 2009 hysterectomy, resulting in intestinal prolapse and emergency surgery requiring a hip-to-hip incision.

    blog.cvn.com
Sources

Every claim above traces to one of these

Links are never hidden behind a paywall of ours. Where a copy of the page exists it is linked beside the source with the date it was taken, because news links rot and a dead link next to a saved copy is still evidence. Some copies predate this register: they were made by the Internet Archive before we existed, and the date shown is the date of that copy, not of our visit.

Right of reply

Named in this case?

Any company named here can submit a response. We publish it in the case unedited, and a request makes the pipeline re-check the case against its own sources within a day. Target turnaround for our reply is five working days.