Surgical equipment set management system

Abstract

To provide an unprecedented surgical instrument set management system capable of preparing a surgical instrument set extremely efficiently, and further optimizing the surgical instrument set.SOLUTION: A surgical instrument set management system for managing a surgical instrument set composed of a plurality of surgical instruments comprises: surgical instrument set information acquisition means for acquiring surgical instrument set information from images of the plurality of surgical instrument prepared for surgery and captured by imaging means; collation means for collating the surgical instrument set information with pre-registered surgical instrument reference set information to generate a collation result; display means for displaying the collation result on a screen; and storage means for storing the surgical instrument set information together with related information including at least any one of surgical procedure information, doctor information, and patient information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a surgical instrument set management system. [Background technology]

[0002] Patent Document 1 discloses a surgical equipment preparation system in which surgical equipment to be used in surgery is given readable symbols such as barcodes, and the barcodes of each piece of surgical equipment are read in sequence by a reading device, inputted into a computer and compared, thereby enabling a complete set of surgical equipment (surgical equipment set) to be accurately prepared.

[0003] However, the system disclosed in Patent Document 1 reads the barcodes of the surgical instruments one by one and inputs them into a computer for confirmation, which requires reading a large number of surgical instruments one by one, making it less practical. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0004] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 6-142105 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] An object of the present invention is to provide a surgical instrument set management system that is unprecedented in that it is possible to prepare a surgical instrument set extremely efficiently and also to optimize the surgical instrument set. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] The gist of the present invention will be described.

[0007] A surgical instrument set management system for managing a surgical instrument set consisting of a plurality of surgical instruments, From the images of the surgical instruments prepared during the surgery and photographed by the photographing meansPre-surgery Get surgical equipment set information At the same time, information on the surgical equipment set after the surgery, including the number of surgical equipment used in the surgery, is obtained. A surgical instrument set information acquisition means; Pre-surgery A verification means for verifying the surgical instrument set information with preregistered surgical instrument reference set information to generate a verification result; A display means for displaying the collation result on a screen; The surgical instrument set information, Surgical procedure and doctor information Store it together with related information including Accumulate A storage means; An analysis means for comparing the number of surgical instruments used in each of the surgical instrument set information of a predetermined past period in which the surgical procedure information and the doctor information are common with the number of surgical instruments used in the surgical instrument reference set information; An editing means for editing the surgical instrument reference set information; The present invention relates to a surgical instrument set management system comprising:

[0008] In addition, claims 1 The surgical equipment set management system described herein is characterized in that it has a detection means for comparing the surgical equipment set information before surgery with the surgical equipment set information after surgery to detect differences.

[0009] The present invention also relates to a surgical instrument set management system as described in claim 1, characterized in that the related information includes patient information.

[0010] The present invention relates to a surgical instrument set management system as set forth in claim 2, characterized in that the related information includes patient information.

[0011] In addition, in the surgical equipment set management system described in any one of claims 1 to 4, the surgical equipment set information relates to a surgical equipment set management system characterized in that it is information acquired from a plurality of surgical equipment arranged side by side on a placement section. Effect of the Invention

[0012] As the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to prepare a surgical instrument set extremely efficiently and also to optimize the surgical instrument set, resulting in an unprecedented surgical instrument set management system. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0013] [Figure 1]FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of the present embodiment. [Diagram 2] FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a matching result. [Diagram 3] FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an analysis result. [Figure 4] FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an analysis result. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0014] A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be briefly described below with reference to the drawings to illustrate the operation of the present invention.

[0015] When performing surgery, surgical instrument set information for comparison with the surgical instrument reference set information can be obtained from an image taken of a set of surgical instruments arranged side by side on a tray or other placement section, and the two can be compared to check for excess or shortage of surgical instruments. Therefore, it is easy to distinguish slight differences in shape that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and not only experienced nurses but also nurses with relatively little experience can efficiently prepare surgical instrument sets.

[0016] Furthermore, by storing surgical instrument set information together with related information, this stored information can be used as a database to analyze the latest needs (number of times a given surgical instrument is used) for each surgical procedure and doctor, and the surgical instrument standard set information can be easily updated according to the analysis results.

[0017] For example, if analysis detects surgical equipment that is included in the surgical equipment standard set information but has not been used in recent surgeries, the surgical equipment standard set information can be manually or automatically updated to exclude that surgical equipment, making it easy to prepare the most appropriate surgical equipment set at any time or to prepare a surgical equipment set according to the surgeon's preferences. EXAMPLES

[0018] A specific embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the photographs in the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent an actual surgical instrument set or the like.

[0019] This embodiment is a surgical instrument set management system for managing a surgical instrument set made up of a plurality of surgical instruments.

[0020] Specifically, the device has a surgical instrument set information acquisition means for acquiring surgical instrument set information from images of a plurality of surgical instruments prepared when performing surgery and captured by an imaging means, a comparison means for comparing the surgical instrument set information with pre-registered surgical instrument reference set information to generate a comparison result, a display means for displaying the comparison result on a screen, and a storage means for storing the surgical instrument set information together with related information including at least any one of surgical procedure information, doctor information, and patient information.

[0021] This embodiment can be implemented in a general computer equipped with a control device such as a CPU, a main storage device (memory) such as a RAM, an auxiliary storage device such as a HDD or SSD, a display device such as a liquid crystal display device, an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse, a communication device such as a NIC for connecting to a communication network, and a bus. For example, the functions of this embodiment are stored in the auxiliary storage device of the computer in the form of a program. The program is read from the auxiliary storage device, deployed on the memory, and executed by the CPU. That is, a system using this embodiment can be realized using, for example, a mobile terminal A, a server B, a client C, and a monitor D, as shown in FIG. 1.

[0022] As a photographing means, a mobile terminal such as a smartphone or tablet having a camera can be used.

[0023] The surgical instrument set information acquisition means is configured to analyze images transmitted from the photographing means to a computer and input thereto, acquire information regarding the external shape of each piece of surgical instrument contained in the images, and acquire information about each piece of surgical instrument (product number, model number, etc.) as surgical instrument set information (register it in the server database).

[0024] The surgical instrument set information is information acquired from a plurality of surgical instruments arranged side by side on a placement section (such as a tray). It is desirable to photograph the surgical instruments as much as possible together, but when a large number of surgical instruments are used, it may be necessary to perform the collation work in multiple separate sessions.

[0025] Furthermore, known image processing techniques, such as feature point detection techniques, can be used to obtain information about the external shape of each surgical instrument.

[0026] The collation means is configured to collate pre-registered surgical instrument standard set information (a list of product numbers and model numbers of surgical instruments used in the surgery) with the surgical instrument set information to detect surpluses or shortages.

[0027] When using the feature point detection method, by comparing the surgical instruments contained in the surgical instrument reference set information with the feature points of each surgical instrument in the detected image, it is possible to identify the product number, model number, etc. based on features such as the shape and color of the reference surgical instrument as a whole or in part.

[0028] The display means is configured to display the matching results on a mobile terminal, a client monitor, or the like. For example, any suitable form may be adopted as long as it displays images and product numbers / model numbers of the missing and unnecessary surgical instruments on the screen and displays the matching results in a manner that informs the operator who manages the surgical instruments. The matching results may also be displayed superimposed on the captured image. For example, unnecessary surgical instruments may be highlighted, or missing surgical instruments may be displayed separately.

[0029] Specifically, the collation results are displayed as shown in Figure 2. In this example, a list of components (instrument name, specification or part number linked to marking number (individual number for each piece of equipment)) is displayed on the left, a photo of the equipment set is displayed in the upper right-hand corner, and unnecessary equipment (with an exclamation mark) and missing equipment (with an x ​​mark) are displayed in the lower right-hand corner. Using the displayed unnecessary and missing equipment as a reference, the worker can replace the equipment set as appropriate to correct the set contents.

[0030] When the surgical instrument set information is acquired, the storage means stores the surgical instrument set information together with related information including at least one of surgical procedure information, doctor information, and patient information. This makes it possible to manage instrument sets according to doctors, patients, and surgical procedures. In this embodiment, the surgical procedure information, doctor information, and patient information are all stored as related information.

[0031] In this embodiment, broadly speaking, a nurse preparing surgical instruments arranges the surgical instruments on a placement section, then uses a mobile terminal to take a picture of the multiple surgical instruments prepared before surgery all at once, sends the image to a server, and the server determines whether or not the surgical instruments included in the captured image match the surgical instruments in the surgical instrument reference set information, and sends the result to the mobile terminal (or client) for confirmation on the mobile terminal, etc. Specifically, the system is configured to further include the following means.

[0032] This embodiment has an editing means for editing the surgical instrument standard set information, so that it is possible to update and register the surgical instrument standard set information by rewriting the changes made to the surgical instrument standard set information immediately after surgery, for example.

[0033] This embodiment also has an analysis means for analyzing the number of uses and the number of times the surgical instruments have been used based on the accumulated surgical instrument set information and related information. The analysis by the analysis means may be performed at any time by the operator, or the analysis may be performed automatically periodically and the results may be stored so that the operator can check past analysis results that have been performed periodically as needed.

[0034] For example, after the surgery (operative procedure, doctor, and patient) is decided, surgical instrument set information common to the surgical procedure and doctor is extracted from the accumulated surgical instrument set information prepared in the past, and the number of times each surgical instrument included in this set has been used in the most recent surgery (for example, the past three surgeries) is counted, and compared with the surgical instrument standard set information corresponding to the current surgery, instruments with an abnormal number of uses (those not the same as the number of uses according to the surgical instrument standard set information) are extracted and displayed. Also, by analyzing the number of uses, it is possible to perform replacement and maintenance at the appropriate time.

[0035] Based on the results of this analysis, the editing means may be used to manually update the surgical instrument standard set information or generate new surgical instrument standard set information, or the system may be configured to automatically generate new surgical instrument standard set information that has been modified to change the differences from the current surgical instrument standard set information based on the results of the analysis.

[0036] This makes it possible to detect surgical equipment that is included in the surgical equipment standard set information but has not been used in recent surgeries, as well as surgical equipment that has just begun to be used.The surgical equipment standard set information can be updated manually or automatically based on the detection results, making it possible to prepare the optimal surgical equipment set at any time.

[0037] Specifically, the analysis results are displayed as shown in Figures 3 and 4. Figure 3 shows the average usage rate (and average unused rate) of each instrument from June 2015 to October 2015. For example, if there is an instrument with an average usage rate of 80% or less, by checking whether the set information containing that instrument has been updated, the optimal standard set information can be obtained at any time (no need to prepare instruments that are not used). Figure 4 shows the average usage rate (and average unused rate) of instruments included in the set information from June 2015 to October 2015. In this case, if there is a set with an average usage rate of 80% or less, by checking whether the set information containing that instrument has been updated, the optimal basic set information can be obtained at any time.

[0038] This embodiment also has a detection means for detecting differences by comparing the surgical instrument set information before surgery with the surgical instrument set information after surgery. Therefore, by photographing the surgical instruments before and after surgery, it is possible to detect the surgical instruments used in the surgery and the surgical instruments that have been left behind.

[0039] Since this embodiment is configured as described above, when performing surgery, surgical instrument set information for comparison with the surgical instrument standard set information is obtained from an image taken of a set of surgical instruments arranged side by side on a tray or other mounting section, and the two are compared to check for any excess or shortage of surgical instruments, making it possible to prepare the surgical instrument set extremely efficiently.

[0040] Furthermore, by storing surgical instrument set information together with related information, this stored information can be used as a database to analyze the latest needs (number of times a given surgical instrument is used) for each surgical procedure and doctor, and the surgical instrument standard set information can be easily updated according to the analysis results.

[0041] Therefore, this embodiment is an unprecedented surgical instrument set management system that can prepare a surgical instrument set extremely efficiently and also optimize the surgical instrument set.

Claims

1. A surgical instrument set management system for managing a surgical instrument set consisting of a plurality of surgical instruments, a surgical instrument set information acquisition means for acquiring pre-surgery surgical instrument set information from images of the plurality of surgical instruments prepared during surgery and photographed by a photographing means, and acquiring post-surgery surgical instrument set information including the number of surgical instruments used in the surgery; A comparison means for comparing the surgical instrument set information before surgery with pre-registered surgical instrument reference set information to generate a comparison result; A display means for displaying the collation result on a screen; A storage means for storing and accumulating the surgical instrument set information together with related information including surgical procedure information and doctor information; An analysis means for comparing the number of surgical instruments used in each of the surgical instrument set information of a predetermined past period in which the surgical procedure information and the doctor information are common with the number of surgical instruments used in the surgical instrument reference set information; An editing means for editing the surgical instrument reference set information; A surgical instrument set management system comprising:

2. 2. A surgical instrument set management system according to claim 1, further comprising detection means for detecting differences by comparing the surgical instrument set information before surgery with the surgical instrument set information after surgery.

3. A surgical equipment set management system as described in claim 1, wherein the related information includes patient information.

4. A surgical equipment set management system as described in claim 2, characterized in that the related information includes patient information.

5. 5. A surgical instrument set management system as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the surgical instrument set information is information obtained from a plurality of surgical instruments arranged side by side on a placement section.

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