270 results about "Surgical patients" patented technology

RFID-based system for tracking billable anesthesiology time in a surgical environment employs hand-held RFID reader devices that record and store timed anesthesia events for each surgical patient. Each patient is assigned a reader device, uploaded with patient data. Each anesthesiology professional has an identifying RFID transponder, and room transponders are located on wall or doorway of each room in the surgical suite. A download cradle is used for downloading the patient data collected during surgery to a central computer. The reader devices are synchronized to a high-accuracy clock, eliminating time accounting problems associated with concurrency and discontinuous time.

An optical imaging system utilizes a three-dimensional (3D) light scanner to capture topography information, color reflectance information, and fluorescence information of a target object being imaged, such as a surgical patient. The system also utilizes the topography information of the target object to perform an image mapping process to project the captured fluorescence or other intraoperative images back onto the target object with enhanced definition or sharpness. Additionally, the system utilizes the topography information of the target object to co-register two or more images, such as a color image of the target object with a fluorescence image for presentation on a display or for projection back onto the target object.

A handheld biopsy device is provided for the collection of soft tissue samples from a surgical patient. In a preferred embodiment, the biopsy device comprises a handpiece, a fluid collection system, and a power transmission source. The handpiece is configured for grasping by a single hand, and being independently manipulatable by hand for movement of the instrument toward and away from the patient. An elongated piercer extends from the distal end of the handpiece. The piercer has a sharpened distal end for entering the tissue and a port located proximal to the sharpened distal end for receiving a portion of tissue mass. An elongated cutter is disposed coaxially relative to a piercer lumen of the piercer. A distal blade of the cutter slides distally past the port of the piercer to severe the tissue portion drawn into the port by vacuum. The cutter is retracted to a most proximal position for removal of the tissue portion from a cutter lumen of the cutter. The handpiece further comprises a holster for detachably connecting a cutter rotation transmission and a cutter axial transmission to the power transmission source.

A device that facilitates the placement of one or more needles and their attached sutures in the body of a surgical patient is disclosed. The device contains one or more needle guide channels in which one or more needles may be backloaded. The device also contains one or more lumens extending though the body of the device. One or more sutures may be coupled to the one or more needles, and threaded through the lumen. The one or more needles may then be advanced out of their respective needle guide channels by pulling on one end of one or more sutures. When one end of a suture is pulled, the attached needle is advanced out of the device and will pierce and be positioned in the tissue that is located adjacent to the device.

A surgical site marking assembly, comprising a print member having a top surface and a male protrusion formed thereon, the male protrusion having a distal end forming a print face sized and shaped to define a mirror image of a desired image to be transfer printed onto a surgical patient in a manner indicative of a surgical site location.

Sensors located on a sensor carrier are placed adjacent one or more of a surgical patient's major thoracic blood-containing structures such as the aorta or pulmonary artery, and characteristics of blood in the blood-containing structures are determined noninvasively by measuring transmission or reflection of light or other types of energy by the blood. Emitters and receptors included in the sensors are connected electrically with suitable electronic signal generating and processing components in a package remote from the sensor carrier.

A magnetic detector locates magnetically tagged items, such as surgical sponges or instruments, introduced to and remaining in the body cavity of a surgical patient. The magnetic detector is a wand or probe that is manually handleable, and spatially manipulable and moveable, by an operator, such as a medical professional. The detector is moved about at a spatial location of an ambient magnetic field at the patient and operating table. A characteristic of the ambient magnetic field at the spatial location is saved by the detector. The detector is subsequently moved about at the same spatial location. If any magnetically tagged item is present in the vicinity of the detector during this subsequent movement at the spatial location, an anomalous magnetic effect is detected by comparison of the prior detection reading absent the tagged item to the detection reading in presence of the tagged item in the patient. The anomalous magnetic effect, and thus the tagged item, is locatable spatially in the patient, by three-dimensional sensor(s), arrays of sensors, and pluralities of arrays of sensors of the detector. The different detection readings with and without presence of the anomalous magnetic effect caused by presence of the tagged item in the patient are calculable as scalar, vector array, and / or gradient array determinations, according to the particular number and configuration of sensors in the detector.

A biopsy probe for the collection of at least one soft tissue sample from a surgical patient. The biopsy probe has a frame and an elongated piercing element having a proximal end attached to the distal end of the frame and a sharpened distal end for piercing tissue. The piercing element has a lumen extending at least partially therethrough. The probe also includes an elongated cutter disposed coaxially and slidably within the lumen of the piercing element. The cutter has a distal end for cutting a tissue sample, a proximal end and a body connecting the distal and proximal ends, wherein at least a portion of the body comprises a flexible member.

A unitary support for holding and cushioning the head and face of a surgical patient has a resilient body of molded foam. The resilient body has a cavity formed in the upper face for receiving and cushioning the head and face of a patient. The resilient body has access openings therein for additional apparatus, such as an endotracheal tube, and to permit viewing of the patient's face during surgery. The resilient body has stiffening structure to prevent constriction of the openings during use and to prevent constriction of an endotracheal tube or similar apparatus.

Methods, apparatus, kits and systems are presented for determining the intraoperative position of at least a first anatomic location of a surgical patient and optionally for measuring the distance between at least first and second anatomic locations of a surgical patient.

A face-down recovery apparatus for use in rehabilitation of patients, particularly vitreoretinal surgical patients. The apparatus has a base and a housing that is pivotally connected to the base by an actuator. A support is positioned contiguously on the housing for received a user in a face-down position. The apparatus is moveable between a substantially vertical, upright orientation to a substantially horizontal orientation. The apparatus is in a substantially upright vertical orientation when the support receives a user in a standing position. The face of a user is secured in a face-down position in a face support, and the rest of the user is secured to the support in a standing position in an unrestricted manner permitting mobility. As the housing is tilted into a horizontal position, the user is positioned in a substantially horizontal orientation. As the user is tilted between the substantially vertical upright orientation and the substantially horizontal orientation, the user's face is continuously maintained in a face-down position in the face support.

A patient table includes a cradle for slidably receiving a board carrying a patient, a cradle supporting member for slidably receiving the cradle, a locker for preventing the board from sliding off the cradle, and a stopper for preventing the cradle from sliding off the cradle supporting member. A method of transferring a patient to an imaging system from a second table uses the patient table to move the board from the second table to the patient table to the imaging system. An RF coil system usable with the table includes a coil, a coil cable, an intermediate box for receiving the coil cable, and a system cable extending from the intermediate box and connected to the imaging system.

A handheld biopsy device is provided for the collection of soft tissue samples from a surgical patient. At least one electrode is provided, such as between a handle and the knife tip of the biopsy device. The electrodes can be provided on a sleeve. The sleeve with electrodes can be releasably supported on the biopsy device.

A surgical site marking assembly, comprising a print member having a top surface and a male protrusion formed thereon, the male protrusion having a distal end forming a print face sized and shaped to define a mirror image of a desired image to be transfer printed onto a surgical patient in a manner indicative of a surgical site location.

In accordance with the present invention there is provided a biopsy device and method for the collection of at least one tissue sample from a surgical patient. The device includes a frame and an elongated piercing element attached to the distal end of the frame. The piercing element has distal end, a proximal end and a lumen extending at least partially therethrough. The piercing element has a sharpened member at its distal end for piercing tissue, and a port proximal thereto which exposes the lumen. The device further includes an elongated cutter and tissue remover disposed coaxially and slidably within the lumen of the piercing element for harvesting a tissue mass disposed within the port of the piercing element and depositing the tissue mass proximal to the port for retrieval. Lastly, the device includes a mechanism for automatically axially rotating the piercing element after severing a sample so multiple samples can be harvested about a longitudinal axis of the piercing element without manually rotating the piercing element.

A handheld biopsy device is provided for the collection of soft tissue samples from a surgical patient. In a preferred embodiment, the biopsy device comprises a handpiece, a fluid collection system, and a power transmission source. The handpiece is configured for grasping by a single hand, and being independentyl manipulatable by hand for movement of the instrument toward and away from the patient. An elongated piercer extends from the distal end of the handpiece. The piercer has a sharpened distal end for entering the tissue and a port located proximal to the sharpened distal end for receiving a portion of tissue mass. An elongated cutter is disposed coaxially relative to a piercer lumen of the piercer. A distal blade of the cutter slides distally past the port of the piercer to severe the tissue portion drawn into the port by vacuum. The cutter is retracted to a most proximal position for removal of the tissue portion from a cutter lumen of the cutter. The handpiece further comprises a holster for detachably connecting a cutter rotational transmission and a cutter axial transmission to the power transmission source.

Disclosed is a bed integrated surgical robot. The bed integrated surgical robot comprises a supporting part, a frame supported by the supporting part, a table supported by the frame and on which a surgical patient is laid and a surgical robot arm installed on the frame and manipulated to reach for the surgical patient, wherein the robot arm is formed of a plurality of joints and deposited on the frame by driving the plurality of joints, and is easy to deposit, install, move, allows an assistant surgeon to easily access a patient under surgery, requires no additional space to install the robot, and functions as a patient bed.

A surgical drape having a sheet. The sheet includes a distal side and a proximal side relative to a surgical patient. The drape also includes a surgical pouch connected to the distal side of the sheet. The surgical pouch is connected to the sheet via at least two elastomeric portions.

A garment worn to assist in the relief of discomfort and provide support to a surgical patient is provided. The garment includes a body having a front side and a rear side. The front side has a front surface, a rear surface and a top edge. A pouch is secured to the front surface and is capable of accommodating and securing an ice pack therein. A compartment is secured directly to the rear surface of the front side and is capable of supporting a scrotum of the patient. The compartment is provided a predetermined distance below the top edge of the front side. The compartment has an opening along a top edge to allow entry of the scrotum of the patient therein.

A tourniquet hazard suppressor suppresses an action initiated by a user of a surgical tourniquet system having a touchscreen user interface if implementation of that action by the system may be hazardous to a surgical patient.

The invention discloses a stable rocuronium injection preparation prescription and a preparation method thereof. The injection contains the active ingredient rocuronium, a stabilizer, an osmotic pressure regulator, a pH (potential of Hydrogen) regulator and injection water, and has two specifications, i.e., 2.5 ml:25 mg and 5ml:50 mg. Rocuronium is added into the proper stabilizer, so that the problem of stability is solved; autoclave sterilization of 121 DEG C is adopted with the help of a filtration sterilization mode to guarantee the sterility. The preparation has the advantages of reasonable prescription, simple process and stable quality and is suitable for industrial production. The injection is used for muscular relaxation of surgical patients.

A surgical drape having a sheet. The sheet includes a distal side and a proximal side relative to a surgical patient. The drape also includes a surgical pouch connected to the distal side of the sheet. The surgical pouch is connected to the sheet via at least two elastomeric portions.

The invention relates to a surgical nursing dressing change cart and belongs to the technical field of medical instruments. The surgical nursing dressing change cart comprises a cart body and a dressing change support and is characterized in that a movable base is arranged on the lower side of the cart body, a guide support is arranged on the lower left side of the movable base and connected with the movable base through a guide connector, a guide damper is arranged on the lower side of the guide support, a horizontal guide rotary shaft is arranged on the lower side of the guide damper, a guide wheel fixing frame is arranged on the lower side of the horizontal guide rotary shaft, a guide rubber wheel is arranged on the lower side of the guide wheel fixing frame and connected with the guide wheel fixing frame through a guide wheel connection rotary shaft, and a movable support is arranged on the lower right side of the movable base. The surgical nursing dressing change cart is simple in structure and comprehensive in function, a dressing of a surgical patient can be conveniently changed, waste can be classified so as to be recovered and can be disinfected and isolated, cross infection is prevented, use is convenient, the workload of medical staff is reduced, and the work efficiency of the medical staff is improved.

Intranasal administration of insulin for a predetermined period prior to anesthesia significantly prevented anesthesia-induced tau hyperphosphorylation and cognitive impairment and enhanced brain insulin signaling in mice. Intranasal insulin thus provides a treatment for prevention of anesthesia-induced tau pathology and increased risk for tauopathies in surgical patients and may be administered to a subject prior to anesthesia, such as by administering several doses of intranasal insulin for several consecutive days prior to any anesthesia.