Surgical suite integration and optimization
AssigneeNovartis AG
InventorPaul R. Hallen
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for integrating and optimizing a surgical suite. An ophthalmic suite can include a surgical console, a heads-up display communicatively coupled with a surgical camera for capturing a three-dimensional image of an eye, and a surgical suite optimization engine. The surgical suite optimization engine can performs a wide variety of actions in response to action codes received from the other components in the surgical suite. The surgical suite optimization engine can be integrated within another component of the surgical suite, can be a stand-alone module, and can be a cloud-based tool.
Claims41
An ophthalmic system comprising:
- a surgical console having tools for conducting an ophthalmic procedure, a console processor, and a console memory containing console instructions which, when executed by the console processor, cause the console processor to monitor a quantitative feature of the ophthalmic procedure and determine when to transmit an action code relating to the quantitative feature of the ophthalmic procedure;
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- a heads-up display communicatively coupled with the surgical console and a surgical camera for capturing a three-dimensional image of an eye, the heads-up display including a display screen for displaying the stereoscopic representation of the three-dimensional image of the eye, a network interface, and a surgical suite optimization engine (SSOE), wherein the SSOE include an SSOE processor and an SSOE memory containing SSOE instructions which, when executed by the SSOE processor, cause the SSOE processor to perform an action after receiving the action code from the surgical console.
A method of improving an ophthalmic procedure comprising:
- monitoring a quantitative feature of an ophthalmic procedure using a surgical console having tools for performing and monitoring an ophthalmic procedure;
- determining, by the surgical console, to transmit an action code relating to the quantitative feature of the ophthalmic procedure;
- displaying, on a heads-up display, a stereoscopic representation of a three-dimensional image of an eye received from a surgical camera;
- receiving, by a surgical suite optimization engine (SSOE) in the heads-up display, the action code;
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- performing, by the heads-up display, an action in response to the action code.
A method of improving an ophthalmic procedure comprising:
- displaying, on a heads-up display, a stereoscopic representation of a three-dimensional image of patient's anatomy received from a surgical camera;
- receiving, from a surgical console having tools for performing ophthalmic procedures and monitoring a quantitative feature of the ophthalmic procedures, an action code describing the quantitative feature of the ophthalmic procedure;
- performing, by a surgical suite optimization engine (SSOE) in the heads-up display, an action in response to the action code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.