81 results about "Operating theater" patented technology

Digital x-ray images taken before a surgical procedure by a fluoroscopic C-arm imager are displayed by a computer and overlaid with graphical representations of instruments be used in the operating room. The graphical representations are updated in real-time to correspond to movement of the instruments in the operating room. A number of different techniques are described that aid the physician in planning and carrying out the surgical procedure.

A personal surgical center embodied as a general purpose computer (e.g. laptop) with wireless technology for monitoring the operation of an independent surgical center and/or handheld instruments. The computer tracks procedures in the operating room and instruments used during those procedures, and accounts for billing, supply management, and payment options. The monitoring of the instruments used during the surgery is conducted by the personal surgical center while actual control of the settings of those instruments is via the independent surgical center or via controls included in the instruments themselves. The monitored information is stored in a log file which is then transmitted to a hospital server for generating reports, inventory control, billing, and the like. Other information generated during the procedure (e.g. doctor notes) is also stored in the log file. The personal surgical center may also access the hospital server or local data storage device for retrieving a surgeon's specific surgery parameters, obtaining patient files, and the like.

The data from several sensors can be measured to provide improved measurement of surgical workflow. The data may comprise times at which needles are removed from suture packs and placed in receptacles. The surgical workflow data may comprise data from several instruments such as removal and placement time of surgical instruments and electrocautery devices. The data from several sensors can indicate vital statistics of a patient or environmental conditions of an operating room. The data from several sensors can indicate the presence, absence, arrival, or departure of one or more actors in a surgical workflow. The data from several sensors can be registered with a common time base and a report generated. The report can indicate a performance of individuals and groups of participants in a surgical workflow.

A draping system provides a continuous sterile field between a patient incision area and one or more medical practitioners. The draping system has a quick release system incorporated into the drape that enables a medical practitioner to separate from the continuous sterile field without disrupting the sterile field around the practitioner or the patient. The draping system may include an abbreviated practitioner gown, a drain and an integral patient incision area or a flap for extending the continuous sterile field around to one or more additional operating room tables. A modular drape and gown system extends the sterile field beyond the operating table allowing practitioners to couple to the extended field. A tent provides an enclosed sterile field useful in mobile or other non operating room surgical environments. Integral lighting and information displays facilitate field surgical procedures.

The various inventions relate to robotic surgical devices, consoles for operating such surgical devices, operating theaters in which the various devices can be used, insertion systems for inserting and using the surgical devices, and related methods.

A system for tracking and locating surgical items and objects in an operating room environment that incorporates two-stage functionality. A first stage provides mechanisms for tracking objects using radio frequency (RF) tags that are positioned on or in conjunction with every surgical item and object so as to be tracked by a number of RF transceivers located about the operating room. In addition to integrating RF ID components, the tags integrate hard spherical components that are easily identifiable by ultrasonic detection. If an object is “lost” from the tracking system functionality (RF tracking), the system operator may review a last known location and movement path presented on a display and thereafter utilize an ultrasonic sub-system in a localized area to detect the exact location of the missing object or item. Narrowing the location of a “lost” object is facilitated by the use of one or more LED laser pointers that are directed through the last known path of the object and to its last known location.

The lighting device for lighting a lighted field comprises a light source having first and second lighting modules. The lighting modules are adapted to light lighted domains of the lighted field. The lighted domains form an overlap zone, and each lighting module defines an overlap volume. The device includes detector means adapted to detect a zone of reduced lighting in the overlap zone, and control means adapted to increase the light flux from said second lighting module when the detector means detect a zone of reduced lighting. The invention is applicable to lighting devices used in operating theaters.

A fixation and retraction system utilizing base components to which shielded magnet components attach in order to locate movable fixation and retraction components or other operating theater devices, such as surgical drapes. Use of rare earth magnets permits system components to be attached quickly, easily and securely in almost an infinite number of configurations.

A method and device, for use in an operating theater just prior to implantation, for selectively applying a medical coating to an implantable medical device. Disclosed is a device for use with a stent deployed on a catheter balloon configured to apply a medical coating of a desired thickness to the surface of the stent only. A drop-on-demand inkjet printing system in association with an optical scanning device is described. The device is further configured to apply a plurality of layered coats, each layered coat being of a different coating material, and if appropriate, different thickness and to coat a portion of the medical device as a function of its geometric configuration. The coating is applied by moving an applicator over the device in a path that is independent of the deposited coating pattern.

A hospital layout comprising a plurality of adjacent OR/intervention rooms (46, 48) uniquely configured and equipped to perform surgical and other interventional procedures, with adjacent intubation rooms (52) configured and equipped to prepare patients for procedures to occur in the OR/intervention rooms and at least one extubation room (54) adjacent the OR/intervention rooms, configured and equipped to post-intervention awaken and extubate patients. A plurality of universal patient rooms (40) are located adjacent the OR/intervention rooms and universal patient rooms, and are configured and equipped to admit patients for surgery/intervention, prepare patients for surgery/intervention, allow patients to recover post-intervention, and discharge patients post-recovery.

Antimicrobial granules comprising granular materials coated with antimicrobial metal agents for use in various surface coating and grouting materials are provided. The antimicrobial granules have utility in imparting durable, safe, inexpensive and powerful antimicrobial properties to materials into which they are incorporated, such as epoxy coating and grouts for surgical theaters, public washrooms, and food processing plants. The granules further are capable of imparting a timed-release dosage of antimicrobial agents so that the effectiveness of the coating is palpable for extended periods.

A device used for applying an antiseptic preparation to a surgical site of a patient prior to surgery outside of an operating theater. A loose-fitting bag is provided which encloses the surgical site by securing the open end(s) to the patient by closing means. A method and apparatus are also provided for releasing antiseptic into the interior of the bag. The method provides that the surgical site can be scrubbed within the bag so as to properly prepare the skin for surgery. A temperature indicator for the antiseptic preparation is also provided.

The present disclosure provides devices and methods for obtaining images of body parts, implants, instruments and models to provide for a mobile hospital, operating room, and/or facility to print desired tools or prostheses. A Conex of the present disclosure includes a computer, image scanning device, printer, and raw materials, and optionally an autoclave and second, product verification scanner. All of these components will be co-located within the Conex. The operator of the Conex will also have access to a database with stored data relating to the large number of objects needed in surgical applications (such as tools and anatomical norms of bone and tissue), allowing the ability to field a mobile hospital at a greatly reduced weight, cost and time.