Modular Surgical Hub System for Sterile Field Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical systems face challenges in efficiently managing and coordinating the use of multiple energy sources and surgical instruments within a sterile field, leading to inefficiencies and potential complications during procedures.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a modular surgical hub system that integrates multiple energy generators and instruments, allowing for interactive communication and quick swapping of modules, along with a cloud-based analytics system for data processing and situational awareness, enables efficient energy application and instrument control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple energy generators and surgical instruments are integrated within a sterile field, then functional versatility is improved, but device complexity and line entanglement worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical system is divided into separate modular components: a non-sterile control system outside the sterile field and a sterile surgical system within the sterile field. This segmentation allows each module to be optimized independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining functional versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
A surgical barrier acts as an intermediary between the non-sterile control system and the sterile surgical system. The barrier with its integrated hub enables communication and coordination between components without requiring physical entanglement of lines, thus reducing line complexity while maintaining system integration.
2Ease of operation
If direct control of surgical instruments is implemented within the sterile field, then ease of operation is improved, but maintaining sterile field integrity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical barrier with integrated hub serves as an intermediary that enables control of surgical instruments within the sterile field without requiring the control system to breach sterile boundaries. The hub communicates with instruments through the barrier, maintaining sterile field integrity while enabling operational control.
Solution Approach 2:
Physical mechanical control through the sterile field is replaced with wireless or electrical communication through the surgical barrier. This substitution eliminates the need for physical penetration of the sterile field while maintaining control functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modular architecture with quick-swapping capabilities is implemented, then ease of repair and adaptability are improved, but device complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical system is organized into standardized modular components that can be independently replaced or upgraded. The hub provides standardized interfaces that simplify the swapping process, making the modular architecture manageable despite increased system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The hub is designed with universal interfaces and communication protocols that work across different surgical instruments and energy generators. This universality reduces the complexity burden of modularity by providing standardized connection methods that simplify integration and swapping operations.
Data Source
AI summary
A surgical system assembly is disclosed. The surgical system assembly includes a first surgical system and a second surgical system coupled to the first surgical system. The second surgical system includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to operate in a first mode or a second mode and control one or more functions of the first surgical system when the second surgical system is in the second mode.