Automatic identification of instruments
AssigneeMedtronic Navigation, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Moctezuma, Craig Drager, Joseph Thomas Cilke, Victor D. Snyder, Wei-Shyang Yang, Justin Kemp, Andrew Wald, Jerald Lamont Redmond, Shai Ronen, Nikhil Mahendra
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Abstract
A system and apparatus is disclosed to automatically determine the identification and selected information relating to instruments. The identification information may be read or determined by various reader systems and then transferred for various purposes. The identification information may be stored on the instrument with a storage system or printing and/or recalled from a memory once the identification is made.
Claims21
A system to evaluate instrumentation for use while performing a procedure, comprising:
- an identification member associated with an instrument;
- an identification reader configured to receive an identification signal from the identification member;
- a transmission system configured to transmit a reader signal based on the identification signal relating to the instrument;
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- a processor system to execute instructions to:
- determine an instrument specific identity of the instrument based on the read information;
- determine whether an error is present based on the determined instrument specific identity when positioned in a procedure area;
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- output at least one of the determination of whether an error is present and the determined instrument specific identity of the instrument, wherein the output is operable to be reviewed by a user while performing the procedure.
A method to evaluate instrumentation for use while performing a procedure, comprising:
- receiving an identification signal from an identification member with an identification reader, wherein the identification member is associated with an instrument in an area;
- executing instructions with a processor system for (i) determining an instrument specific identity of the instrument based on the read information and (ii) determining whether the determined instrument specific identity is indicative of an instrument error for performing the procedure;
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- outputting from the processor system (i) the instrument specific identity of the instrument and (ii) an indication of the error if the determined instrument specific identity is determined to be an instrument error for receiving by a user or further analysis while performing the procedure.
A method of performing a procedure, comprising:
- transmitting information of an instrument;
- and
- executing instructions with a processor system to:
- determine an instrument specific identity of the instrument based on the transmitted information by executing instructions with a processor;
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- output the instrument specific identity of the instrument;
- preparing a surgical navigation system based on the output the instrument specific identity of the instrument including recalling a predetermined plan including a planned instrument specific identity;
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- updating the recalled predetermined plan including updating a list of instruments for the predetermined plan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.