Dynamic Patient Support Platform for Anatomical Replication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical techniques fail to replicate the patient's normal anatomical and physiological conditions during surgery, leading to post-operative issues when returning to daily activities.
Innovation Solution
A patient support platform that allows the patient's torso to extend in a generally vertical direction, secured by patient supports to maintain a static condition, enabling access for surgical incisions and replicating normal anatomical and physiological conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the patient is positioned in traditional horizontal surgical positions (supine or prone), then surgical access and surgeon ergonomics are improved, but the patient's normal anatomical and physiological conditions are not replicated
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical table is designed with dynamic positioning capabilities that allow the patient support surface to be tilted and adjusted to various angles, enabling the patient's body to assume positions that replicate normal anatomical conditions (such as standing or sitting positions) while still providing adequate surgical access. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by making the static horizontal positioning flexible and adaptable.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the positional parameters of the patient support surface, allowing transition from traditional horizontal positions to inclined or vertical positions that better replicate the patient's normal anatomical alignment. By adjusting the angle and orientation parameters of the support surface, the system maintains surgical accessibility while improving anatomical condition replication.
2Reliability
If the patient is positioned to replicate normal anatomical conditions, then post-operative outcomes are improved, but surgical access and surgeon ergonomics may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patient support system is divided into multiple independently adjustable segments or zones, allowing different parts of the patient's body to be positioned at different angles and orientations. This segmentation enables the system to replicate normal anatomical conditions in critical areas while maintaining ergonomic positions for surgical access in other areas, thus resolving the contradiction between anatomical replication and surgical accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces additional dimensional freedom by allowing multi-axis adjustment of the patient support surface, including tilting, rotating, and elevating capabilities. This dimensional expansion enables the system to achieve both anatomical replication and surgical accessibility by positioning the patient in complex spatial configurations that satisfy both requirements simultaneously.
3Productivity
If traditional horizontal positioning is used, then surgical procedures can be performed efficiently, but patients experience post-operative problems when returning to normal positions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary positioning of the patient in anatomically correct positions before the surgical procedure begins. By establishing the patient's body in its normal anatomical alignment at the start of surgery, the procedure is performed under conditions that match the patient's everyday physiology, thereby improving post-operative outcomes without sacrificing surgical efficiency. The anatomical positioning is maintained throughout the procedure.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for performing a surgical procedure includes: positioning a patient in a surgical patient interface device that includes: a base, a platform coupled to the base, and a first abutment and a second abutment each coupled to the platform; rotating the platform between a first position and a second position, where, in the first position, the platform extends in a substantially horizontal direction relative to the base, and the first and second abutments are separated by a first distance, and in the second position, the platform extends in a substantially vertical direction relative to the base; adjusting one or both of the first and second abutments relative to the platform such that, in the second position, the first and second abutments are separated by a second distance different from the first distance; and accessing a target portion of skin of the patient for the surgical procedure.