Surgical Hub Response Adjustment Based on Procedure Progress
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical systems and facilities face challenges in integrating newer technologies due to patient safety concerns and a desire to maintain traditional practices, leading to slower adoption and limited communication with other facilities, which hinders improved patient care through interconnected systems.
Innovation Solution
A surgical system comprising a modular device, data sources, and a surgical hub that communicably couples with these components, allowing data exchange and adjusting responses based on progress and situational parameters to enhance surgical procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional practices are maintained to ensure patient safety, then system reliability is improved, but technological advancement and system adaptability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical hub acts as an intermediary device that bridges traditional surgical instruments and modern digital systems. It receives data from conventional surgical devices through standardized interfaces and translates it into actionable insights, allowing facilities to adopt new technology incrementally without abandoning proven traditional practices, thus maintaining patient safety while enabling technological advancement
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of surgical data in real-time, identifying potential safety concerns before they manifest as problems. By pre-processing and interpreting data from surgical devices, the hub provides advance warnings and recommendations, allowing surgical teams to take preventive actions while maintaining confidence in both traditional and new technologies
2Device complexity
If surgical systems operate independently to maintain traditional practices, then system simplicity is improved, but communication capability and situational awareness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical hub is designed as a universal platform that can connect to multiple different surgical devices and data sources using standardized interfaces. It performs multiple functions including data aggregation, real-time analysis, predictive analytics, and communication with external facilities, enabling independent surgical systems to share information and learn from each other without requiring complex custom integrations
3Productivity
If real-time data processing is implemented to improve surgical efficiency, then productivity is improved, but device complexity and data processing requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The data processing functionality is segmented into modular components distributed between the surgical hub and connected devices. Each device processes and pre-analyzes its own data locally, sending only essential information to the hub, which then performs higher-level analysis. This segmentation reduces the processing burden on any single device while maintaining real-time surgical efficiency
Data Source
AI summary
A surgical system for use in a surgical procedure is disclosed. The surgical system includes a modular device, at least one data source, and a surgical hub configured to communicably couple to the at least one data source and the modular device. The surgical hub comprises a control circuit configured to receive data from the at least one data source. The data is determinative of a progress status the surgical procedure. The control circuit is further configured to adjust a response to a sensed parameter based on the progress status.