Endoscope cleaning system
AssigneeMedtronic Xomed, Inc.
InventorsSamuel Gladstone, Ali Mowlai-Ashtiani
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Abstract
A method for cleaning an endoscope during a surgical procedure performed with a surgical instrument. The method includes: measuring with a processor module an aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument during the surgical procedure; and activating an endoscope cleaning system with the processor module to clean a lens of the surgical instrument after the processor module determines that the measured aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument has reached a target duration.
Claims13
A method for cleaning an endoscope during a surgical procedure performed with a surgical instrument, the method comprising:
- measuring with a processor an aggregate activation time of a surgical instrument during a surgical procedure;
- and
- activating an endoscope cleaning system with the processor to clean a lens of the endoscope after the processor determines that the measured aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument has reached a target duration, wherein the surgical instrument is any one of a debrider, a drill, a mill, a burr, or a cauterizer.
A method for cleaning an endoscope during a surgical procedure performed with a surgical instrument, the method comprising:
- measuring with a processor an aggregate activation time of a surgical instrument during a surgical procedure;
- activating an endoscope cleaning system with the processor to clean a lens of the endoscope after
- (A) the processor determines that the measured aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument has reached a target duration;
- and
- (B) the surgical instrument has been deactivated for a predetermined deactivation period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.