Medical Apparatus Configuration Database with Active Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
During medical interventions, surgeons face challenges in accessing and confirming optimal apparatus configurations and parameter settings, which are often time-consuming and error-prone, as they need to assemble and set up apparatuses for specific procedures, lacking access to proven configurations and risking neglect in routine or emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
A system that provides access to predetermined, optimally validated apparatus configurations and parameters through a confirming element, requiring active physician confirmation before incorporation, allowing modification and ensuring awareness and safety, with a database for storing and updating configurations and parameters, and separate control units for security-relevant and non-security-relevant devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If predetermined apparatus configurations and parameters are provided through a database, then access to proven optimal settings is improved, but the risk of unverified parameter application and potential errors increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a confirmation mechanism where the physician must actively confirm parameter values before they are applied to the apparatus. The control unit displays the predetermined parameters and requires explicit user confirmation, creating a feedback loop that prevents unverified parameter application while maintaining access to proven optimal settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification by providing predetermined parameters that have already been validated through previous successful operations. The database stores pre-validated configurations, and the system prepares these for review before application, ensuring that only proven optimal settings are considered for use.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the physician must manually assemble and set up apparatuses for specific procedures, then flexibility and adaptability are improved, but time consumption and error-proneness increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores predetermined apparatus configurations and parameter settings in a database that have been pre-assembled and validated for specific procedures. During an operation, the physician can quickly retrieve these pre-prepared configurations instead of manually assembling them, significantly reducing setup time while maintaining the ability to adapt by selecting from multiple stored configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and stores copies of successful apparatus configurations from previous operations. These copied configurations can be retrieved and reused for similar procedures, eliminating the need to manually re-assemble the same settings and reducing both time consumption and the risk of errors.
3Productivity
If predetermined parameters are automatically applied without confirmation, then productivity and speed are improved, but safety and physician awareness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system requires explicit physician confirmation before applying predetermined parameters. The control unit displays the parameters and waits for active user confirmation, ensuring that the physician is aware of and approves the settings before they are applied to the apparatus, thereby maintaining safety and awareness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies a confirmation step that may seem excessive for routine operations, but this partial additional action ensures safety and physician awareness. The confirmation requirement is selectively applied to maintain productivity while preventing errors in critical moments.
4Reliability
If a comprehensive database of apparatus configurations is maintained, then access to proven settings is improved, but system complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The database system is designed to store multiple types of apparatus configurations and parameters in a unified structure. The control unit can retrieve and manage different kinds of medical apparatus settings through a single interface, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from managing separate storage systems for each apparatus type.
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AI summary
To be able to use a generally available database of predetermined apparatus configurations and parameters in medical interventions, a device is disclosed for controlling and/or monitoring at least one apparatus during a medical intervention, said device including a least one control unit for controlling and/or monitoring the at least one apparatus and at least one display unit for displaying data, wherein: access is possible to data specific to the intervention, including at least data on the parameter values to be entered on the at least one apparatus during a predetermined intervention; in addition the parameter values are predetermined at least in part depending on the user, while the parameter values can be called up by a user for display by means of the display unit, and a confirming element is provided, through whose actuation the predetermined parameter values for the at least one apparatus are incorporated.