Surgical Drape With Transparent Windows For Sterile Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical draping methods are time-consuming, complicated, and fail to maintain sterility effectively, especially when using 3D imaging devices and radiological equipment, leading to potential contamination risks and inaccuracies in surgical procedures.
Innovation Solution
A one-piece customized disposable surgical drape that provides circumferential access, maintains sterility, and allows for navigation readability through clear plastic or optical lenses, with under-table wrapping capabilities and longitudinal sterile separation, ensuring efficient and sterile coverage of patients and equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional makeshift draping procedures are used to maintain sterility, then sterility can be maintained, but the procedure becomes time-consuming and complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate draping functions into a single integrated drape structure that simultaneously provides patient coverage, equipment coverage, and sterile field maintenance. The drape includes an upper portion for patient coverage, a lower portion for equipment coverage, and connecting sides that maintain sterile barriers, eliminating the need for multiple separate draping steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The surgical drape is designed as a multi-functional device that can simultaneously drape the patient, cover surgical equipment, maintain sterile fields, and accommodate imaging devices. The single drape structure performs multiple functions that traditionally required separate draping procedures for different components of the surgical field.
2Reliability
If traditional draping methods are used, then coverage can be provided, but the complexity of the procedure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple draping functions into a single unified structure that simultaneously addresses patient coverage, equipment coverage, and sterile field maintenance. The connecting sides of the drape create continuous sterile barriers without requiring multiple separate draping operations.
3Measurement precision
If radiological equipment is used during surgery, then imaging guidance can be provided, but maintaining sterility becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The drape includes specific localized features such as transparent windows positioned over the patient's anatomy to allow imaging device penetration while maintaining sterile coverage elsewhere. The connecting sides provide localized sterile barriers that accommodate equipment access points without compromising overall sterility.
4Measurement precision
If clear plastic or optical lenses are used in the drape, then navigation readability is improved, but the drape material requirements become more specific
Solution Approach 1:
The drape incorporates transparent windows or optical lens regions at specific locations where imaging and navigation devices need to view anatomical landmarks or reference frames. These transparent portions are integrated into the drape structure only where needed, allowing navigation readability while maintaining standard opaque materials in other areas for sterile coverage.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a surgical drape to be used in conjunction with a surgical procedure, and more specifically to a surgical drape that includes one or more of the following: (1) a patient drape for use with a standalone non-draped image acquisition device (requiring circumferential access to the patient); (2) a patient drape for use with a standalone non-draped image acquisition device with image guidance navigation technology; (3) the means to provide temporary sterile coverage of an underlying sterile field; (4) the means to provide sterile separation of at least a portion, if not the entire temporary sterile coverage; (5) the means to provide covering of the undersurface of the operating surface and enclosing any suspended medical devices, wires, cables, tubes, etc; and (6) a single-use disposable outer surgical drape that ensures sterility of a covered surgical apparatus, device, or machine, or an inner drape associated therewith.