Integrated Surgical Cart Merging Navigation and Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
In surgical procedures, especially spinal fusion, there is a challenge in balancing invasiveness, efficiency, and radiation exposure due to the proliferation of stand-alone technologies in the operating room, leading to space constraints and user access issues.
Innovation Solution
A surgical cart system that integrates multiple surgical applications, such as navigation, neuromonitoring, and imaging, into a single portable unit, utilizing networking and server hosting technology to enable multiple client devices to interact efficiently, providing real-time instrument navigation and trajectory information, and minimizing pedicle breach risks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple stand-alone technologies are used in the operating room, then surgical functionality is improved, but operating room footprint and space constraints worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple stand-alone surgical technologies (navigation system, neuromonitoring, imaging, radiation detection) into a single integrated surgical cart. This consolidation maintains all required surgical functionalities while reducing the overall space occupation in the operating room by eliminating the need for separate devices and their associated footprints.
Solution Approach 2:
The surgical cart is designed as a universal platform that performs multiple surgical functions simultaneously - navigation, neuromonitoring, imaging display, and radiation detection. This multi-functional design allows a single device to replace multiple specialized devices, thereby improving surgical functionality while minimizing the operating room footprint.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple stand-alone technologies are deployed, then surgical capabilities are enhanced, but user access and device management become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple surgical systems into one integrated cart with a unified control interface, the patent simplifies device management. Users interact with a single system rather than multiple separate devices, reducing the complexity of setup, operation, and troubleshooting while maintaining enhanced surgical capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal control interface of the surgical cart provides consistent access to all surgical functions (navigation, monitoring, imaging) through a single system. This eliminates the need for users to learn and manage multiple different device interfaces, thereby reducing management complexity while preserving full surgical capabilities.
3Measurement precision
If multiple devices are used, then surgical precision is improved, but the number of devices and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates navigation, imaging, and monitoring systems into a single cart that provides precise surgical measurements and tracking. This consolidation maintains the precision benefits of multiple devices while reducing the actual number of physical devices in the operating room.
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AI summary
A system includes a surgical cart that includes a local client access point, a monitor, a cart computer, a first external interface coupled to the local client access point, and a second external interface coupled to the primary monitor. The surgical cart can host a web server to which one or more client devices can connect using a web browser. The web server can provide access to one or more surgical applications hosted by the surgical cart during a surgery.