INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC

Manufacturer adverse-event records for INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2004–2026 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC sits in the heavy MAUDE book

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC accounts for 100,623 FDA MAUDE reports (#31 of 443, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.58% (typical); Injury share 10.7% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC

The standout signal for INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC is filing volume: 100,623 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#31 of 443, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.58% (typical).

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.

Reports span 11 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 89,244 (88.7% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 50,012 reports across 21 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

100,623
Total Reports
579
Event-type Death
10,800
Injury Reports
11
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 89,244 (88.7%)
Injury 10,800 (10.7%)
Death 579 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

94,226 (93.5%)
Required Intervention 4,138 (4.1%)
R 573 (0.6%)
Other 559 (0.6%)
Hospitalization 466 (0.5%)
H 386 (0.4%)
Death 251 (0.2%)
L 87 (0.1%)
D 63 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 51 (0.1%)
O 13 (0.0%)
S 6 (0.0%)
Disability 4 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

04
2004: 1
06
2006: 1
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 12
09
2009: 3
11
2011: 4
12
2012: 5
13
2013: 7
14
2014: 18
15
2015: 10
16
2016: 1
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 779
19
2019: 1,048
20
2020: 1,442
21
2021: 1,809
22
2022: 6,258
23
2023: 11,876
24
2024: 13,271
25
2025: 50,012
26
2026: 14,061