Sterile surgical tray
AssigneeDoheny Eye Institute
InventorsMark Humayun, Charles DeBoer, Matthew McCormick, Prashant Bhadri, Joel Cicchella, Ralph Kerns
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Abstract
A sterile surgical tray includes structure for receiving a plurality of surgical instruments, a pump fluid reservoir within the tray, a pump contained within the sterile tray and connected to the pump fluid reservoir, and a motor contained within the sterile tray and connected to the pump. Sterile surgical tray 10 also may include electrical input and output connectors attached to tray.
Claims96
A sterile surgical tray comprising:
- a receiving area for holding a plurality of surgical instruments;
- a fluid reservoir disposed apart from the receiving area;
- a pump operatively connected to the fluid reservoir;
- a motor drivingly coupled to the pump;
- and
- a plurality of input and output connectors attached to the sterile tray, at least one of the input and output connectors being connected to the motor.
A sterile surgical tray system comprising:
- a tray with a top surface defining a sterile surface for holding a plurality of surgical instruments;
- at least one surgical instrument held on the top surface;
- a pump fluid reservoir for use with the at least one surgical instrument;
- a pump operatively connected to the at least one surgical instrument and to the pump fluid reservoir;
- a motor connected to the pump for driving the pump;
- and
- wherein at least the pump remains within a sterile field during surgery.
A sterile surgical tray comprising:
- a top surface for holding a plurality of surgical instruments;
- a pump connected to the sterile tray and for connection to a fluid pump reservoir;
- and
- a motor connected to the pump for powering the pump.
A sterile surgical tray comprising:
- a tray having a sterile top surface for holding a plurality of surgical instruments;
- a pump fluid reservoir prepackaged and sterilized with the tray;
- a pump in the tray for operative connection to at least one surgical instrument and the pump fluid reservoir;
- and
- a motor connected to the pump for powering the pump.
A sterile surgical tray comprising:
- a sterile surgical tray having a surface for holding a plurality of surgical instruments;
- and
- a plurality of electrical input and output connectors attached to the tray.
A sterile surgical tray comprising:
- a pump in the sterile tray;
- and
- an electrically powered motor connected to the pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.