Thermal treatment of surgical fluids

A system for thermally treating surgical fluid comprising:

• a basin configured to receive and hold a surgical fluid;
• a thermal treatment device thermally coupled to the basin and configured to adjust a temperature of the surgical fluid in the basin;
• a non-contact reader configured to read information contained on a machine-readable tag of a surgical drape placed in the basin between the basin and the surgical fluid;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• receive identifying information read from the machine-readable tag of the surgical drape placed in the basin via the non-contact reader;
• compare the identifying information read from the machine-readable tag to authenticating information stored in memory;
• if the identifying information does not match the authenticating information, prohibit operation of the thermal treatment device;
• if the identifying information matches the authenticating information, start a timer and/or write a start time to the machine-readable tag;
• compare the timer and/or start time to a threshold amount of time;
• and
• terminate operation of the thermal treatment after the threshold amount of time has passed.

A system for thermally treating surgical fluid comprising:

• a basin configured to receive and hold a surgical fluid;
• a thermal treatment device thermally coupled to the basin and configured to adjust a temperature of the surgical fluid in the basin;
• a non-contact reader configured to read information contained on a machine-readable tag of a surgical drape placed in the basin between the basin and the surgical fluid;
• a weight measurement device positioned to obtain weight measurement information concerning a weight of surgical fluid in the basin;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• receive identifying information read from the machine-readable tag of the surgical drape placed in the basin via the non-contact reader;
• compare the identifying information read from the machine-readable tag to authenticating information stored in memory;
• if the identifying information does not match the authenticating information, prohibit operation of the thermal treatment device;
• and
• the controller is further configured to:
• receive weight measurement information from the weight measurement device;
• receive a weight of the drape based on information read from the machine-readable tag via the non-contact reader;
• and
• adjust the weight measurement information received from the weight measurement device to decrement a measured weight by the weight of the drape received based on information read from the machine-readable tag.

A system for thermally treating surgical fluid comprising:

• a basin configured to receive and hold a surgical fluid;
• a surgical drape positioned in the basin, wherein the drape is formed of a polymeric material and a machine-readable tag is sealed between different layers of the polymeric material;
• a thermal treatment device thermally coupled to the basin and configured to adjust a temperature of the surgical fluid in the basin;
• a non-contact reader configured to read information contained on the machine-readable tag of the surgical drape;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• receive identifying information read from the machine-readable tag of the surgical drape placed in the basin via the non-contact reader;
• compare the identifying information read from the machine-readable tag to authenticating information stored in memory;
• and
• if the identifying information does not match the authenticating information, prohibit operation of the thermal treatment device.