Asynchronous open task for operating room control system
AssigneeKARL STORZ Imaging, Inc.
InventorsDavid Mussoff, Alexander Hau, Jean-Marc Bonnaudet, Christoph Hiltl
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Abstract
An operating room control system that includes a computer, a visualization device, an input device and a storage device where the user can open a first medical procedure session on the operating room control system by means of the input device, image data is generated by the visualization device and routed/saved to the storage device, and a second medical procedure session may be opened while the image data from the first medical procedure session is being routed/saved to the storage device. The first medical procedure session may then be closed after the image data from the first medical procedure session has been routed/saved to the storage device.
Claims17
An operating room control system comprising:
- a computer having a network connection;
- a storage accessible by said computer;
- an interface unit coupled to said computer;
- an input device coupled to said interface unit;
- a visualization device coupled to said interface unit and generating image data;
- a surgical display coupled to said interface unit and displaying the image data;
- software executing on said computer such that a first medical procedure session is opened and the operating room control system is configured for the first medical procedure;
- software executing on said computer such that the image data for the first medical procedure session is routed to and saved on said storage;
- software executing on said computer such that a second medical procedure session is opened and the operating room control system is configured for the second medical procedure while the image data for the first medical procedure session is being saved on said storage.
A method for configuring an operating room control system including:
- a computer connected to a network, a storage accessible by the computer, an interface unit connected to the computer, and an input device and a visualization device both connected to the interface unit, the method comprising the steps of:
- executing software on the computer to open a first medical procedure session on the operating room control system;
- configuring the operating room control system based on the type of medical procedure to be performed and according to predefined configuration preferences;
- generating image data for the first medical procedure session with the visualization device;
- routing the image data to the storage;
- saving the image data on to the storage;
- executing software on the computer to open a second medical procedure session on the operating room control system while simultaneously saving the image data for the first medical procedure session on the storage;
- executing software on the computer to close the first medical procedure session on the operating room control system when the image data has been saved on the storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.