Computer-based operating room support system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11715560-B2
Application number	US-201314025651-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 12, 2013
Priority date	Sep 12, 2013
Publication date	Aug 1, 2023
Grant date	Aug 1, 2023

Abstract

A computer-based surgery support system and method for obtaining information of surgical procedures from networked equipment in an operating room, storing the retrieved information in a database, receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal, and providing the stored information in accordance with the received request. The networked equipment may be configured for use in cataract surgical procedures, such as a phacoemulsification system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-based surgery support system, comprising:
a network attached computer with a processor and a data storage device storing instructions which, when executed on the processor, cause the computer to perform tasks including:
selecting one or more groups of settings for at least one surgical device used for a surgical procedure in an operating room;
receiving-information from the at least one surgical device;
correlating the information from the at least one surgical device and the one or more groups of settings;
storing the correlated information as stored information on the storage device in a database;
receiving a request for the stored information including an identified analysis of the information and an identified format of analysis results;
analyzing the stored information and formatting the analysis results in accordance with the received request;
providing the formatted analyzed information to a destination identified in the received request;
sending specific items of the stored information requested by a remote user to a user terminal remote from the at least one surgical device, wherein the specific items include the one or more groups of settings;
receiving at least one of a second one or more groups of settings configured by the remote user to control the at least one surgical device during a second surgical procedure from the user terminal remote from the at least one surgical device, the at least one of a second one or more groups of settings is based on the at least one of the one or more groups of settings;
automatically adjusting operating parameters of, and controlling operation of, the at least one surgical device based on the at least one of the second one or more groups of settings during the second surgical procedure; and
comparing and updating the information from the at least one surgical device and the second one or more groups of settings.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the surgical procedure is an eye surgery.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the eye surgery is one of cataract surgery, refractive surgery, laser cataract surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, and glaucoma surgery.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the information from the at least one surgical device in use during the surgical procedure in the operating room is computer-readable information.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one surgical device is at least a part of network attached equipment in the operating room, and at least a portion of the computer-readable information is obtained from the network attached equipment in the operating room.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one surgical device includes a computer-based phacoemulsification system.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the phacoemulsification system is configured to run at least one application utilizing selected settings during the procedure.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the information from the at least one surgical device includes diagnostic information of the phacoemulsification system.

9. The system of claim 6 , wherein the information from the at least one surgical device includes operational information of the phacoemulsification system recorded during the procedure.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operational information of the phacoemulsification system includes information sampled at regular intervals during the procedure.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operational information of the phacoemulsification system includes information recorded continuously during the procedure.

12. The system of claim 5 , wherein the at least one surgical device includes a surgical media center (SMC) arranged to make at least one of an audio recording and a video recording of activity in the operating room during the surgical procedure.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the tasks further include overlaying surgeon-dictated audio onto SMC data.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information from the at least one surgical device includes date and time of the beginning and end of the surgical procedure.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the surgical procedure includes a plurality of stages, and the information from the at least one surgical device includes the date and time of the beginning and end of each of the stages.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include obtaining and storing identifiers of persons present during the procedure, including at least one of a patient on whom the procedure is performed, a surgeon performing the procedure, and operating room staff participating in the procedure and an indicator of their respective duties.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include obtaining and storing information of supplies consumed during the procedure, including an identity of the supplies and a respective amount used.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising an interface to a supplier ordering system, wherein the tasks further include using the interface to order operating room supplies to replenish those consumed during the procedure.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the using the interface to order the operating supplies further comprises using the interface to automatically order replenishing supplies after each procedure, according to a set schedule, or as triggered by inventory levels dropping to a predetermined threshold.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include gathering patient feedback information.

21. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include providing feedback to a manufacturer of at least one device in the operating room.

22. The system of claim 21 , wherein the feedback is provided to at least one of the manufacturer's customer service, marketing, sales, technical support, and research and development.

23. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include generating at least one of a table, a graph, and text and providing the generated at least one of the table, the graph, and the text to the user terminal in response to the request.

24. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of procedures occur in a plurality of operating rooms.

25. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formatted information includes at least one of operating room efficiency, effective phaco time (EPT), energy usage over time, energy usage flow rate, flow rate over time, vacuum rate, vacuum rate over time, procedure time, time between procedures, procedures per selected time period, characteristics of a plurality of surgeons, characteristics of a plurality of operating room staff persons, error logs of system or user errors, and a comparison of supplies used in a plurality of procedures.

26. The system of claim 1 , wherein the analysis results include a correlation of information pertaining to a plurality of surgical procedures, efficiency, product usage, and phacoemulsification system program settings.

27. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tasks further include receiving a type identifier of the user terminal, and formatting the specific items for presentation based on the identified user terminal type.

28. The system of claim 27 , wherein the user terminal is one of a smart phone, a tablet computer, a portable computer, and a desktop computer.

29. The system of claim 1 , wherein the informati

Assignees

• Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc

Inventors

• Ha Catherine P
• Hunter Timothy L
• Kadziauskas Kenneth E
• Pedroza Joseph E
• Steen Mark E
• Wong Wayne S
• Evans Tamara

Classifications

• G16H40/63 Primary

  for local operation · CPC title

• G16H20/40

  relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture · CPC title

• G16H50/70

  for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients · CPC title

• A61F9/00745

  using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic · CPC title

• A61F2009/00887

  Cataract · CPC title