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Intuitive Surgical, Inc.: da Vinci Xi Surgical System Product Usage: The da Vinci Xi Surgical System (IS4000) is designed to assist a surgeon in the accurate control of surgical instruments such as endoscopes, scissors, forceps, and retractors during endoscopic surgery. The system has four universal manipulators (arms) which allow the surgeon to control up to three instruments and an endoscope simultaneously to perform surgical tasks (e.g. cutting, suturing, tissue approximation) in a variety of procedures in the pelvic, abdominal, and thoracic cavities.
- Recall number
- Z-2630-2017
- Recalling firm
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
- Product
- da Vinci Xi Surgical System Product Usage: The da Vinci Xi Surgical System (IS4000) is designed to assist a surgeon in the accurate control of surgical instruments such as endoscopes, scissors, forceps, and retractors during endoscopic surgery. The system has four universal manipulators (arms) which allow the surgeon to control up to three instruments and an endoscope simultaneously to perform surgical tasks (e.g. cutting, suturing, tissue approximation) in a variety of procedures in the pelvic, abdominal, and thoracic cavities.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-06-01
- Posted
- 2017-06-06
- Terminated
- 2017-10-02
- Reason
- da Vinci Xi(R) Surgical System Patient Side Carts (PSC) were shipped to the field with potentially under-torqued brake screws in a section of the system arms.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- Intuitive Surgical sent an Field Safety Notice letter dated June 1, 2017 to customers. The letter was sent electronically via through our da Vinci customer portal via email to the affected sites on June 1, 2017. Letters are sent to the da Vinci Coordinator, Recall Coordinator and/or Risk Management. The customer will receive a hard copy of this letter on June 6, 2017 via Fed Ex. The letter identified the affected product, problem and actions to be taken. For questions contact your Clinical Sales Representative.
- Quantity
- 10 units
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide in the states of TX, NY,FL, IL, OH, and countries of France, Ireland, Japan, and Taiwan
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Serial Numbers: SK0822, SK1154, SK1001, SK1170, SK1040, SK1176, SK1082, SK1180, SK1146, SK1190
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K131861"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- NAY
- Firm FEI
- 3001675293
- Firm city
- Sunnyvale
- Firm state
- CA
- Firm country
- not on file
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- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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- Published
- 2026-09-28
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