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US 2026/0053591 A1Published application
Surgical tray efficiency system and related methods
AssigneeFlex Operating Room, LLC
InventorJeffrey Gerstner
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Abstract
A surgical tray efficiency system comprising a vertical rack assembly for holding and displaying a plurality of surgical instrument trays, a sterile barrier covering the vertical rack assembly and including tray location identifiers, and a standardization software platform including a customizable interactive planogram is described. The customizable interactive planogram software helps operating room staff arrange the instrument trays on the vertical rack assembly according to a predetermined customizable location ID, and create/load/access information related to the surgical procedure/trays/instruments before, during, and after the surgery.
Claims19
A system for increasing efficiency in an operating room environment during a surgical procedure, comprising:
- a multi-level shelf assembly comprising a plurality of elongated shelves vertically separated from one another, each elongated shelf having a generally planar display surface configured to hold at least one standard surgical instrument tray, wherein the plurality of elongated shelves includes a first shelf having a generally planar display surface oriented parallel to the ground, and a second shelf having a generally planar display surface arranged in a nonparallel orientation relative to the first shelf;
- a sterile identification barrier overlaying the multi-level shelf assembly to create a physical barrier between a sterile field of an operating room and the multi-level shelf assembly, the sterile identification barrier including a plurality of tray-receiving areas, each sized and configured to overlay at least a portion of one of the elongated shelves and containing only one standard surgical instrument tray therein, each tray-receiving area having a unique tray-receiving area location identifier associated therewith;
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- computer-readable media including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to cause a computer system to:
- receive surgical planning data that is related to a given surgical procedure and that is input by a user, the surgical planning data comprising:
- (i) surgical instrument tray content that indicates surgical instruments to be stored on various surgical instrument trays, and
- (ii) tray-receiving area location identifiers that correspond directly to the tray-receiving area location identifiers of the sterile identification barrier, and that indicate the locations of the various surgical instrument trays on the sterile identification barrier during the given surgical procedure, and
- provide, on a display device, an interactive presentation that indicates:
- (i) the surgical instruments that are to be stored on the various surgical instrument trays, and
- (ii) the locations of the various surgical instrument trays on the sterile identification barrier during the given surgical procedure.
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A method for increasing efficiency in an operating room environment during a given surgical procedure, comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of surgical instrument trays, each containing one or more surgical instruments related to the given surgical procedure;
- providing a multi-level shelf assembly comprising a plurality of elongated shelves vertically separated from one another, each elongated shelf having a generally planar display surface configured to hold at least one surgical instrument tray;
- draping a sterile identification barrier over the multi-level shelf assembly to create a physical barrier between the sterile field of the operating room environment and the multi-level shelf assembly, the sterile identification barrier including a plurality of tray-receiving areas, each sized and configured to overlay at least a portion of one of the elongated shelves and contain only one surgical instrument tray therein, each tray-receiving area having a unique location identifier associated therewith;
- inputting surgical planning data related to a given surgical procedure into a computer system, the surgical planning data comprising:
- (i) surgical instrument tray content that indicates surgical instruments to be stored on various surgical instrument trays, and
- (ii) tray-receiving area location identifiers that correspond directly to the tray-receiving area location identifiers of the sterile identification barrier, and that indicate the locations of the various surgical instrument trays on the sterile identification barrier during the given surgical procedure;
- affixing a unique location identifier tag to the surgical instrument trays, the unique location identifier tag corresponding to the locations of the various surgical instrument trays on the sterile identification barrier during the given surgical procedure;
- placing the specific surgical instrument tray with affixed location identifier tag within the tray-receiving area having the corresponding tray-receiving area location identifier;
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- interacting, with a computer system that is providing, on a display device, an interactive presentation that indicates (i) the surgical instruments that are to be stored on the various surgical instrument trays, and (ii) the locations of the various surgical instrument trays on the sterile identification barrier during the given surgical procedure, to select a particular surgical instrument tray and cause the display device to present an enlarged view of the particular surgical instrument tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.