System, method, apparatus, device and computer program product for automatically detecting positioning effect
AssigneeSafeOp Surgical, Inc.
InventorsSamuel Johnson, Richard A O'Brien
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Abstract
An automated system, method, apparatus, device and/or computer program product for detecting positioning effect is set forth, the apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment may include an output operable to couple to one or more stimulating electrodes to stimulate one or more peripheral nerves of the patient, an input operable to couple to one or more recording electrodes to record resultant electrical waveforms generated by a nervous system of a patient in response to the stimulating module, and one or more processors operable to identify the positioning effect based on the resultant electrical waveforms.
Claims20
A method of identifying positioning effect in a patient, the method comprising:
- stimulating one or more peripheral nerve structures with one or more electrical pulses from a stimulating electrode;
- recording resultant electrical waveforms generated by a nervous system of the patient in response to the electrical pulses using a recording electrode;
- detecting, by a computing device, a change in the resultant electrical waveforms;
- analyzing, by the computing device, the detected change in the resultant electrical waveforms to automatically identify the positioning effect, the positioning effect comprising an immediate or potential injury to the one or more peripheral nerve structures due to stress associated with a position in which the patient has been placed for medical care or treatment;
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- forwarding data to a display, the data comprising information for displaying an anatomical diagram that depicts a location of the detected change.
An automated system, comprising:
- a stimulating electrode to stimulate one or more peripheral nerve structures of a patient;
- a recording electrode to record resultant electrical waveforms generated by a nervous system in response to stimulation by the one or more stimulating electrodes;
- a processor coupled to the stimulating electrode and the recording electrode, operable to:
- receive information about the recorded resultant electrical waveforms from the recording electrode;
- detect a change in the resultant electrical waveforms;
- analyze the detected change in the resultant electrical waveforms to automatically identify the positioning effect, the positioning effect comprising an immediate or potential injury to the one or more peripheral nerves due to stress associated with a position in which the patient has been placed for medical care or treatment;
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- alert a user to the positioning effect.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.