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US 2019/0201084 A1Published application
Surgical evacuation flow paths
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsFrederick E. Shelton, IV, David C. Yates, Kevin L. Houser, Jason L. Harris
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Abstract
Surgical systems can include evacuation systems for evacuating smoke, fluid, and/or particulates from a surgical site. A surgical evacuation system can be intelligent and may include one or more sensors for detecting one or more properties of the surgical system, evacuation system, surgical procedure, surgical site, and/or patient tissue, for example.
Claims20
A surgical evacuation system, comprising:
- a pump;
- a motor operably coupled to said pump;
- a flow path fluidically coupled to said pump, wherein said flow path comprises a first filtering path and a second filtering path;
- a sensor positioned along said flow path upstream of said pump, wherein said sensor is configured to detect a parameter of a fluid moving through said flow path;
- and
- a control circuit configured to:
- direct the fluid along said first filtering path until the parameter detected by said sensor exceeds a threshold parameter stored;
- and
- direct the fluid along said second filtering path when the parameter detected by said sensor exceeds the threshold parameter.
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A surgical evacuation system, comprising:
- a pump;
- a motor operably coupled to said pump;
- a flow path fluidically coupled to said pump, wherein said flow path comprises a first filtering path, a second filtering path, and a diverter valve movable between a first position and a second position, wherein a fluid is directed along said first filtering path when said diverter valve is in the first position, and wherein the fluid is directed along said second filtering path when said diverter valve is in the second position;
- a sensor positioned along said flow path upstream of said pump, wherein said sensor is configured to detect a parameter of the fluid moving through said flow path;
- and
- a control circuit configured to control said diverter valve based on the parameter detected by said sensor.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:
- detect a parameter of a fluid moving through a flow path of a surgical evacuation system, wherein the flow path comprises a first filtering path and a second filtering path;
- direct the fluid along the first filtering path until the parameter detected by the sensor exceeds a threshold parameter;
- and
- direct the fluid along the second filtering path when the parameter detected by the sensor exceeds the threshold parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.