4 results about "Surgical sponge" patented technology

A system and method of managing one or more surgical articles, where the surgical articles may include a surgical sponge having an identification element, and where the management may include counting, positioning, or both. The identification element may be an RFID tag. The RFID tag stores unique identification information related to the surgical sponge. Systems and methods for detecting RFID tags may include changing the power level of an RFID interrogator to improve the accuracy of scanning RFID tags. A plurality of surgical articles (i.e., surgical sponges) with RFID tags may be packaged or bundled by a strip or packaged or bundled within a container.

System and method of managing one or more surgical articles, wherein the surgical article can include a surgical sponge comprising an identification element, and wherein managing can include counting, locating, or both. The identification element can be a RFID tag. The RFID tag stores unique identification information relative to the surgical sponge. The system and method for detecting RFID tags may include a hand-held RFID reader operable in a first count-in mode and in a second count-out mode; the hand-held RFID reader may be receivable in a cradle that can determine the presence of the hand-held RFID reader in the cradle; and where operation of the hand-held RFID reader in the second count-out mode is enabled when the hand-held RFID reader is present in the cradle and the second count-out mode is disabled when the hand-held RFID reader is absent from the cradle.

Systems and methods for managing surgical sponges. A dispenser assembly coupled to a main support includes an internal or first storage location to removably receive a carton of sponge sorters, and an external or second storage location to removably support a carton of surgical draping. At least one arm may be supported on the housing and movable between an undeployed position and a deployed position. The arm may include weighing means to measure a weight of the surgical sponge being disposed in a sponge sorter supported by the arm. The arm may be a cantilever and abeam load cell may be disposed within a channel of a beam. A processor may determine fluid weight based on measured weight and dry weight correlated with the surgical sponge being counted out as detected with a data reader. The processor may estimate blood loss to be displayed on a display.

Systems and methods for quantifying blood loss with a surgical sponge management system. A data reader detects a tag of the surgical sponge, and one or more processors identify a sponge type of the surgical sponge based on a unique identifier. A presentation window is displayed on a user interface with dimensions of the presentation window based on the identified sponge type. The processor(s) determine whether characteristics of the surgical sponge satisfy acceptance criteria based on the identified type of the surgical sponge. The acceptance criteria may include sponge presence, folded sponge, partial sponge, presentation distance, correct sponge, moving sponge, mask validation, and sponge supervision. An optical sensor captures a color image of the surgical sponge once the characteristics satisfy the acceptance criteria. A volume of the blood or blood component on the surgical sponge is estimated based on the color image, and displayed on a user interface.