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BLANK MDR FIELDS: UNABLE TO CONDUCT FOLLOW-UP DUE TO LACK OF SITE DETAIL AND CONTACT INFORMATION, THEREFORE THE PATIENT INFORMATION IS UNKNOWN. OUTCOMES ATTRIBUTED TO ADVERSE EVENT: IS BLANK BECAUSE THE EXACT DATE OF THE PATIENT'S DEATH WAS NOT PROVIDED. THE EXPIRATION DATE IS NOT APPLICABLE. PRODUCT INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE SPECIFIC PRODUCT DETAILS WERE NOT PROVIDED. IMPLANT DATE (2020 REPORTS) IS BLANK BECAUSE THE PRODUCT IS NOT IMPLANTABLE. DATE REC¿D BY MFR (2020 REPORTS) AND DEVICE MANUFACTURE DATE ARE UNKNOWN BECAUSE SPECIFIC PRODUCT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED. INITIAL REPORTER NAME AND ADDRESS IS UNKNOWN BECAUSE THE SITE AND CONTACT INFORMATION WERE NOT PROVIDED. PMA/510K (2020 REPORTS), ADVERSE EVENT, RECALL (IF RECALL NUMBER IS GIVEN) (2020 REPORTS), AND CORRECTION/REMOVAL NUMBER (2020 REPORTS) ARE NOT APPLICABLE." }, { "mdr_text_key": "253454790", "text_type_code": "Description of Event or Problem", "patient_sequence_number": "1", "text": "ON 5-MAY-2021, INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. (ISI) RECEIVED MW5100203 STATING: ¿A (B)(6) Y/O FEMALE WITH A HISTORY OF 12DM. HTN. UTERINE ADENO CANCER S/P HYSTERECTOMY (2016), HX OF APPENDICEAL ADENOMA SEEN ON ENDOSCOPY THAT WAS SUSPICIOUS FOR MALIGNANCY UNDERWENT A ROBOTIC ASSISTED LAP RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY ON (B)(6) 2021. ON (B)(6) 2021 THE PATIENT BECAME HYPOXIC AND CARDIAC ARRESTED. THE PATIENT UNDERWENT THREE ROUNDS OF CPR BEFORE OBTAINING ROSC. THE PATIENT WAS TRANSPORTED TO ICU, AND THREE UNITS OF EMERGENCY RELEASED PRSCS WERE TRANSFUSED, DUE TO A PROFOUND DROP IN HER HGB, THE PATIENT REMAINED HEMODYNAMICALLY UNSTABLE AND A DECISION WAS MADE TO RETURN TO THE OPERATING ROOM FOR AN EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY. IN THE OPERATING ROOM, THE ILEOCOLIC ARTERY WAS FOUND TO HAVE A PULSATILE BLEED AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY LIGATED. ON RETURN TO THE ICU, PT. REMAINED HEMODYNAMICALLY UNSTABLE WITH WORSENING HYPOXIA. THE PATIENT REQUIRED INCREASED PRESSURE SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ON (B)(6) 2021 THE PATIENT¿S CONDITION CONTINUED TO WORSEN. ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME WAS SUSPECTED AND THE DECISION WAS MADE BY THE ICU TEAM TO RE-OPEN THE ABDOMEN AT THE BEDSIDE. UPON ENTRY INTO THE ABDOMEN, 1000 CCS OF THIN SANGUINOUS FLUID WAS EVACUATED. THE BOWEL WAS EXTREMELY DUSKY WITH PATCHY AREAS OF ISCHEMIA. THE MESENTERY WAS CONGESTED WITH HEMORRHAGIC CONGESTION. EVERYTHING WAS GRAY AND DUSKY. NO OBVIOUS SOURCE OF HEMORRHAGE WAS IDENTIFIED. THERE WAS A FECULENT ODOR, BUT NO OBVIOUS COLON OR SMALL BOWEL INJURY. AT THIS TIME, THE AORTA WAS MANUALLY OCCLUDED DUE TO A LOSS OF PULSES. THREE UNITS OF BLOOD WERE GIVEN BILATERAL CHEST TUBES WERE PLACED. AFTER MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF EPI, THE PATIENT EXPIRED. 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