Medical device company Acclarent added artificial intelligence to its TruDi Navigation System to assist doctors with sinus surgery. A Twitter post by the company in October 2021 introduced the new AI features.
Posted on 02/09/2026 3:03:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses. Acclarent said the software for its TruDi Navigation System would now use a machine-learning algorithm to assist ear, nose and throat specialists in surgeries.
The device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a patient injury. Since AI was added to the device, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events.
Medical device company Acclarent added artificial intelligence to its TruDi Navigation System to assist doctors with sinus surgery. A Twitter post by the company in October 2021 introduced the new AI features.
At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.
Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.
FDA device reports may be incomplete and aren’t intended to determine causes of medical mishaps, so it’s not clear what role AI may have played in these events. The two stroke victims each filed a lawsuit in Texas alleging that the TruDi system’s AI contributed to their injuries. “The product was arguably safer before integrating changes in the software to...
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10 people “injured” over 5 years by AI, 1.2 million (killed) by medical accidents in the same time period.
Modeled on those map apps with direct routes through peat bogs, over cliffs, other no-go zones?
It will let you know, ask the T-1000
Body parts DO NOT get swapped while doing it at home.
I’ve been using AI a lot, but I’m wondering if when botched surgeries happen, AI does a similar thing that does to me when it gets things wrong
“ oops sorry yep you’re right, my mistake! you have the correct answer!”
Last week, its AI logarithm demonetized a 100,000+ subscriber channel that reads classic short stories, for being repetitive, and AI.
Its hundreds of recording and not all repetitive, save three or four short ones will occasionally be bundled into one long video. The reader, also the owner, and curator, is superb, and his reading of Victorian and Edwardian short stories he selects, is a refreshing change from the AI, written, and read, drivel that constitutes a large part of what YouTube offers up to me.
And he is still demonetized. Appeals, and protests, go to AI evaluators, which concur with the AI logarithm, that the channel is repetitive, and AI.
THIS!!!
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