Surgical Display Prioritization Using Instrument Situational Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Surgical imaging systems often fail to recognize and convey crucial three-dimensional structural information and dimensions intraoperatively, leading to potential errors and inefficiencies in surgical procedures.
Innovation Solution
A medical instrument with situational awareness capabilities determines upcoming surgical tasks and prioritizes relevant display data, providing real-time error detection and correction instructions, such as cleaning, reloading, or repair, to enhance surgical efficiency and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If surgical imaging systems display all available data, then information completeness is improved, but information prioritization and clarity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The display information is segmented into priority levels, with critical surgical data (e.g., actuator status, error conditions) displayed prominently while less critical information is secondary. This segmentation allows all information to be available without overwhelming the surgeon with undifferentiated data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively determines upcoming surgical tasks based on contextual data and prioritizes display data accordingly before the surgeon needs it. This preliminary organization of information ensures that when the surgeon needs specific data, it is already prioritized and ready, improving both completeness and clarity.
2Productivity
If the system proactively determines and displays data for upcoming surgical tasks, then surgical efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The medical instrument performs self-service by automatically determining its own upcoming tasks based on contextual data from the surgical procedure, and autonomously prioritizing its own display data without requiring external control. This reduces the effective complexity burden on the overall system while maintaining high productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from contextual data (surgical procedure status, current tasks, error conditions) to dynamically adjust display prioritization. This feedback loop enables the system to proactively prepare relevant information without complex manual configuration, improving surgical efficiency while managing complexity through automated adaptation.
3Reliability
If the system provides real-time error detection and correction instructions, then patient safety is improved, but information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and isolates only the critical error conditions and correction instructions from the overall data stream, displaying them prominently while minimizing processing and display of non-critical information. This extraction approach maintains high patient safety through real-time error detection while reducing overall information processing load by focusing computational resources on essential safety-critical data.
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AI summary
A surgical hub for prioritizing data on a display using situational awareness of a medical instrument may be provided. A first surgical task that uses a medical instrument during a medical procedure may be determined based on a contextual data. A second surgical task that uses the medical instrument may be determined based on the first surgical task and the contextual data. A message may be sent that may instruct a display to prioritize a display data associated with the second surgical task.