Illumination device for illuminating a surgical wound
AssigneeDr. Mach GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsGabriel Zachmann, Andre Richard Mühlenbrock, Peter Kohrs, Adrian Urs Fox
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Abstract
Disclosed is an illumination device for illuminating a surgical wound, which has a wound opening area and a depth extension direction, the illumination device including a control device for inputting information about a position of the wound opening area and the depth extension direction, and a plurality of lighting devices where at least one of the lighting devices emits light such that an illuminated area at least partially overlapping with the wound opening area and where the lighting devices are arranged in the array in a substantially unchangeable position.
Claims15
An illumination device for illuminating a surgical wound, which has a wound opening area on a surface of a body of a patient and extends into the body of the patient in a depth extension direction along a wound channel running into the body of the patient,
- wherein the illumination device comprises a control device with means for inputting information about a position of the wound opening area and the depth extension direction in a spatial coordinate system,
- wherein the illumination device has a plurality of lighting devices which are each configured to emit light in a main emission direction, and which each have at least one illuminant,
- wherein at least one of the lighting devices is configured to emit light such that an area illuminated by said at least one lighting device at least partially overlaps the wound opening area,
- wherein the main emission direction of each lighting device, which has an illuminated area at least partially overlapping with the wound opening area, and the depth extension direction of the surgical wound each enclose an angle with one another whose value does not exceed a predetermined angle value,
- wherein at least those lighting devices that have an illuminated area at least partially overlapping the wound opening area and whose corresponding main emission direction does not exceed a predetermined angular value with the depth extension direction of the surgical wound form an array, wherein the lighting devices in the array are arranged in an unchangeable position relative to one another.
A method for illuminating a surgical wound, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a illumination device which has a plurality of lighting devices which are each configured to emit light in a main emission direction, wherein at least some of the lighting devices form an array in which the lighting devices are arranged at an unchangeable position relative to one another,
- inputting information about a position of a surgical wound in a spatial coordinate system which has a wound opening area on the surface of the body of a patient,
- determining a depth extension direction of the wound along a wound channel running into the body of the patient,
- determining at least one lighting device of the illumination device, which lighting device is configured to emit light such that an area illuminated by said at least one lighting device overlaps at least partially with the wound opening area, and that its main emission direction encloses an angle with the depth extension direction of the surgical wound, a value of which angle does not exceed a predetermined angular value, and
- activating the lighting devices determined in this way to illuminate the surgical wound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.