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AI-Enabled TruDi Navigation System Was Alleged to Have Contributed to Patient's Stroke During May 2023 Sinuplasty
- Occurred
- May 19, 2023
- Published
- Feb 9, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Patient Donna Fernihough allegedly suffered carotid-artery damage and a same-day stroke during a May 19, 2023 balloon sinuplasty in Texas in which surgeon Marc Dean reportedly used Acclarent's AI-enabled TruDi Navigation System. Her lawsuit alleged the system's AI-assisted navigation contributed to unsafe guidance during the procedure; Acclarent and Integra LifeSciences, which later acquired Acclarent, denied evidence linking TruDi's AI to the injuries.
Developers
- Integra LifeSciences
- AI-enabled surgical navigation system developers
- AI-enabled healthcare system developers
- Acclarent
Deployers
- Surgical teams using TruDi Navigation System
- Marc Dean
Harmed parties
- Surgical patients
- Patients undergoing AI-guided procedures
- Patients
- Donna Fernihough
- Balloon sinuplasty patients
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-enabled medical navigation system allegedly caused patient injury during surgery, leading to a lawsuit.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8