Videoscopic Arthroscopic Release Instrument With Integrated Camera Blade
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing endoscopic tissue release instruments lack full visualization of anatomic structures during procedures, often requiring separate cameras for adequate surgical guidance.
Innovation Solution
A videoscopic arthroscopic system with an integrated camera and blade mechanism, allowing for simultaneous visualization and tissue cutting through a single instrument.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a separate camera is inserted into the patient to provide visualization of the surgical procedure, then visualization capability is improved, but device complexity and procedural time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the camera system and cutting blade into a single integrated instrument. The camera is housed within the same instrument body as the blade, allowing both visualization and tissue cutting functions to be performed through one insertion site. This eliminates the need for separate camera and cutting instruments, reducing device complexity while maintaining full visualization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The instrument is designed to perform multiple functions: visualization through the integrated camera, tissue cutting through the blade, and navigation through the cannula system. This multi-functional design allows a single instrument to replace what would traditionally require multiple separate instruments, thereby reducing procedural complexity and time.
2Measurement precision
If multiple separate instruments are used for visualization and cutting, then functional precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the camera and blade into a single instrument, the surgeon operates both visualization and cutting functions from one device. This integration maintains surgical precision through the blade's accurate positioning while simplifying operation by eliminating the coordination required between separate instruments. The blade can be precisely deployed at the desired location while the camera continuously monitors the procedure.
3Reliability
If separate camera and cutting instruments are used, then reliability is improved through redundancy, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated design maintains reliability by ensuring both camera and blade are part of the same controlled system, reducing the risk of misalignment or coordination errors between separate instruments. Productivity is enhanced by allowing the surgeon to perform cutting actions without removing or repositioning a separate camera instrument, streamlining the surgical workflow and reducing procedural time.
Data Source
AI summary
Videoscopic arthroscopic instruments, devices, and systems are disclosed. The videoscopic arthroscopic system includes a release instrument including at least one camera sensor and a video unit. In addition, methods of assembling the release instruments are disclosed. Further, surgical methods for using the videoscopic arthroscopic instruments, devices, and systems for minimally invasive tissue release surgery to release tissue in a patient's joints or limbs are disclosed.