System and method for ensuring proper medical instrument use in an operating room
AssigneeDePuy Products, Inc.
InventorsMark DiSilestro, Terry Dietz, Jason Sherman, Robert Hastings
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Abstract
A system for managing medical instrument use during a surgical procedure may comprise a number of medical instruments, a display device configured to display any of the number of medical instruments, a microphone for transmitting voice commands identifying different ones of the number of medical instruments, and a controller. The controller is responsive to the voice commands to control the display device to display corresponding ones of the number of medical instruments.
Claims32
A system for managing medical instrument use during a surgical procedure, the system comprising:
- a number of medical instruments,
- a display device configured to display any of the number of medical instruments, and
- a controller configured to control the display device to sequentially display specified ones of the number of medical instruments to be used during a surgical procedure, the specified ones of the number of medical instruments being sequentially displayed in an order defined by the surgical procedure.
A method of managing medical instrument use during a surgical procedure, the method comprising the steps of:
- displaying a first one of a number of medical instruments to be used in the predefined surgical procedure,
- displaying a next one of the number of medical instruments to be used in the predefined surgical procedure when use of the previous one of the number of medical instruments is complete, and
- repeating the step of displaying the next one of the number of medical instruments until all of the number of medical instruments to be used in the predefined surgical procedure have been used.
A system for managing medical instrument use during a surgical procedure, the system comprising:
- a number of medical instruments,
- a display device configured to display any of the number of medical instruments,
- a microphone for transmitting voice commands identifying different ones of the number of medical instruments, and
- a controller responsive to the voice commands to control the display device to display corresponding ones of the number of medical instruments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.