Systems and methods for planning a surgical procedure and evaluating the performance of a surgical procedure

Inventors

Frushour, Scott E. M.

Assignees

Covidien LP

Abstract

A system facilitating planning of a surgical procedure includes one or more storage devices, one or more input devices, a processor, and a memory. The storage device(s) stores, for previous surgical procedures, surgical instrument information, procedure information, and patient information. The input device(s) is configured to receive procedure information and patient information corresponding to a surgical procedure to be performed. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify similar previous surgical procedures, identify outcome information for each of the similar previous surgical procedures, determine whether there is a correlation between the surgical instrument information of the similar previous surgical procedures and the outcome information of the similar previous surgical procedures, and, if a correlation is determined, output the correlation to facilitate planning of the surgical procedure to be performed.

Core Innovation

The system for evaluating a surgical procedure receives surgical instrument information corresponding to at least one surgical instrument and procedure information corresponding to the surgical procedure performed on tissue of a patient. It accesses a storage device that stores a record for each of a plurality of previous surgical procedures, where each record includes surgical instrument information and procedure information for that previous surgical procedure.

Using instructions executed by a processor, the system identifies target previous surgical procedures from the plurality of previous surgical procedures at least by comparing the procedure information of the surgical procedure under evaluation with the procedure information of each of the records. The system then compares the surgical instrument information of the surgical procedure under evaluation with the surgical instrument information for each of the identified target previous surgical procedures and outputs a result of the comparison.

The document further describes evaluating performance by searching or selecting target previous surgical procedures and presenting comparative results that can include activation amounts and activation-related metrics, such as activation levels, activation durations, activation sequences, and comparisons displayed as table, chart, or graph, including relationship outputs.

The described architecture includes surgical, local, and remote areas, with surgical instrument sensors capturing activation patterns and feedback data, and device components managing searchable databases and correlation and analysis outputs. The document describes recording correlations between instrument information and outcomes for matched cases and outputting the correlations for use in surgical instrument selection or usage guidance.

Claims Coverage

The partial content provides two independent claims (clm-00001 and clm-00011). Each independent claim covers a system that receives surgical instrument and procedure information, accesses records of previous surgical procedures, identifies target previous surgical procedures by comparison or search, compares instrument information, and outputs a comparison result.

Across the two independent claims, the inventive focus is matching or identifying target previous surgical procedures using procedure information or searching records, then comparing the evaluated procedure's surgical instrument information against the instrument information of the identified targets and outputting a comparison result.

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Documented Applications