Operating room control system

• US 20050284491A1
• Filed: 06/21/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Tashiro, Koichi, Nakamura, Takeaki, Uchikubo, Akinobu
• Application Number:
  US11/157,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20050284491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/897
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00234 for minimally invasive surgery A61B17/0218, A61B17/0469, A61B17/12013, A61B17/1285, A61B17/29, A61B17/320016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00017 Electrical control of surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/36 Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/37 Surgical systems with images on a monitor during operation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

An operating room control system including: a first controller connected to a medical device placed in an operating room; a second controller connected to a nonmedical device placed in the operating room; and an operating instruction input device for accepting input of an operating instruction for the medical device and for transmitting the content of the entered operating instruction to the first controller. In this operating room control system, an operating instruction for the nonmedical device is also entered into the operating instruction input device. The first controller transmits a first control signal according to the operating instruction for the nonmedical device entered into the operating instruction input device to the second controller. The second controller converts the first control signal to a second control signal for controlling the nonmedical device and transmits it to the nonmedical device. Thereby, a surgeon can operate the nonmedical device by himself.

Claims

1. An operating room control system comprising:

a first controller connected to one or more medical devices disposed in an operating room;

a second controller connected to one or more nonmedical devices disposed in the operating room; and

an operating instruction input device for accepting input of an operating instruction for the one or more medical devices and the one or more nonmedical devices and for transmitting the content of the entered operating instruction to the first controller, wherein;

the first controller has a function of transmitting a first control signal according to the operating instruction for the one or more nonmedical devices entered into the operating instruction input device to the second controller; and

the second controller has a function of converting the first control signal to a second control signal for controlling the one or more nonmedical devices and transmitting the second control signal to the one or more nonmedical devices.

2. The operating room control system according to claim 1, wherein:

the one or more nonmedical devices includes at least one of a room light, a room camera, a ceiling camera, an image reference storage server, and an image recording device.

3. The operating room control system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more medical devices comprises an endoscope.

4. The operating room control system according to claim 3, wherein the operating instruction input device is a manual operation button associated with the endoscope.

5. The operating room control system according to claim 1, further comprising a display member for displaying a content of an operating instruction of the operating instruction input device.

6. The operating room control system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more nonmedical devices comprises an audio-visual device.

7. A method of operating one or more nonmedical devices from an operating instruction input device for one or more medical devices, the method comprising:

accepting input of an operating instruction for the one or more nonmedical devices from the operating instruction input device by using a controller for the one or more medical devices;

transmitting the input of the operating instruction for the one or more nonmedical devices from the controller for the one or more medical devices to a controller for the one or more nonmedical devices;

converting the input of the operating instruction to an operation command for the one or more nonmedical devices to be operated by using the controller for the one or more nonmedical devices; and

transmitting the converted command from the controller for the one or more nonmedical devices to the one or more nonmedical devices to be operated.