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US 2019/0099548 A1Published application
System, Apparatus and Method for Monitoring Anterior Chamber Intraoperative Intraocular Pressure
AssigneeJohnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
InventorsDeep Mehta, Dung T. Ma
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Abstract
A method for maintaining anterior chamber intraoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) is provided by receiving and/or detecting variables of a surgical system and utilizing those variables to monitor intraoperative IOP. Determining an IOP in real time during a surgical procedure either provides a notification to an eye surgeon or allows a target IOP of the anterior chamber of a patient's eye to be set and maintained.
Claims14
A phacoemulsification surgical handpiece, comprising:
- a distal end having at least one surgical tool;
- a proximal end having at least one sensor module communicatively connected to at least one irrigation line and at least one aspiration line;
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- at least one sensor located within the at least one sensor module and resident in line with one of the at least one irrigation line, the at least one aspiration line, and the at least one surgical tool;
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- at least one communication module communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor module configured to communicate data indicative of ones of the at least one sensor to a surgical console.
- wherein the pressure of one of the at least one irrigation line and the at least one aspiration line is regulated in accordance with the at least one sensor.
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A method for controlling pressure within a surgical system, the method comprising:
- providing a surgical system, which comprises at least one computing processor capable of accessing code from at least one computing memory associated with the at least one computing processor, the processor in communication with a phacoemulsification surgical handpiece;
- receiving from the phacoemulsification surgical handpiece data from at least one sensor located in line with the proximate end of the phacoemulsification surgical handpiece and the surgical system;
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- regulating the pressure of at least one fluid line communicatively coupled to the surgical system and the phacoemulsification surgical handpiece in accordance with data from the at least one sensor.
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