System and controller for controlling operating room

• US 20060287645A1
• Filed: 08/30/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Tashiro, Koichi, Nakamura, Takeaki, Uchikubo, Akinobu
• Application Number:
  US11/512,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20060287645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00 Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets A61B18/00 takes precedence; contraceptive devices, pessaries, or applicators therefor A61F6/00; eye surgery A61F9/007; ear surgery A61F11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00482 with a code
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders

Abstract

An operating room controlling system includes: a first controller connected to a medical apparatus provided in an operating room; a second controller connected to a non-medical apparatus provided in an operating room; and an operation direction inputting section to which operational directions to the medical and non-medical apparatuses are inputted, and which sends the content of the inputted operational direction to the first controller. The first controller sends to the second controller a first control signal corresponding to the operational direction of the non-medical apparatus inputted to the operation direction inputting section. When there are a plurality of non-medical apparatuses, the second controller converts the first control signal to a second control signal, and sends the second control signal to a non-medical apparatus determined out of the plurality of non-medical apparatuses based on predetermined priorities.

Claims

1. An operating room controlling system, comprising:

a first controller connected to one or two or more medical apparatuses provided in an operating room;

a second controller connected to one or two or more non-medical apparatuses provided in the operating room; and

an operation direction inputting section to which an operational direction to the non-medical apparatuses is inputted, and which outputs a content of the inputted operational direction to the first controller, wherein

the first controller sends to the second controller, a first control signal corresponding to the operational direction to the non-medical apparatuses, the first control signal being inputted to the operation direction inputting section; and

the second controller converts the first control signal to a second control signal for controlling the non-medical apparatuses, and when there are a plurality of the non-medical apparatuses corresponding to the first control signal, sends the second control signal to a non-medical apparatus determined out of the plurality of non-medical apparatuses based on predetermined priorities.

2. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the system comprises a memory section for storing information of the priorities of the non-medical apparatuses, and

the second controller reads out the information of the priorities stored in the memory section, and determines the non-medical apparatus to send the second control signal to.

3. A non-medical apparatus controller for controlling one or two or more non-medical apparatuses provided in an operating room, comprising:

a control signal receiving section for receiving a first control signal corresponding to an operational direction to the non-medical apparatuses from a medical apparatus controller for controlling one or two or more medical apparatuses provided in the operating room; and

a control signal outputting section for converting the first control signal to a second control signal for controlling the non-medical apparatuses, and when there are a plurality of the non-medical apparatuses corresponding to the first control signal, outputting the second control signal to the non-medical apparatus determined out of the plurality of the non-medical apparatuses based on the predetermined priorities.

4. A non-medical apparatus controller as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the non-medical apparatus controller comprises the memory section for storing the information of the priorities of the non-medical apparatuses, and

the second controller reads out the information of the priorities stored in the memory section, and determines the non-medical apparatus to send the second control signal to.

5. A non-medical apparatus controller as claimed in claim 3, wherein the non-medical apparatuses are audio-visual apparatuses.

6. A non-medical apparatus controller as claimed in claim 5, wherein the audio-visual apparatuses are image-recording devices.

7. A non-medical apparatus controller as claimed in claim 3, wherein the medical apparatuses are endoscopes.

8. A non-medical apparatus controller as claimed in claim 7, wherein the operation direction inputting section is an operation button provided to each of the endoscopes.

9. A surgery system comprising:

a first controller for controlling a first group of apparatuses including a medical apparatus and a medical apparatus differing from the medical apparatus and having a first ID inputting section capable of inputting a patient ID of a patient;

a second controller for controlling a second group of apparatuses including an audio-visual apparatus and an audio-visual apparatus differing from the audio-visual apparatus and having a second ID inputting section capable of inputting the patient ID of the patient; and

a management computer storing patient data including the patient ID, wherein

when the patient ID is inputted to either the first ID inputting section or the second ID inputting section, the first controller compares the inputted patient ID with the patient ID of the management computer obtained by communicating with the management computer, and if the inputted patient ID matches with the patient ID of the management computer, controls to send to the second controller the patient ID inputted to either the first ID inputting section or the second ID inputting section.

10. A surgery system as claimed in claim 9, wherein

if the patient ID is inputted via the first ID inputting section, then the first controller controls to send the inputted patient ID matching with the patient ID of the management computer, to an audio-visual apparatus having the ID inputting section within the second group of apparatuses, via the second controller, and

if the patient ID is inputted via the second ID inputting section, then the first controller controls to send the inputted patient ID matching with the patient ID of the management computer to a medical apparatus having the ID inputting section within the first group of apparatuses.

11. A surgery system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first controller outputs the comparison result for notification to a user.

12. A surgery system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first ID inputting section is a wrist band reader for reading out the patient ID stored in a wrist band and outputting the patient ID to the first controller, the wrist band storing the patient ID and being attached to the arm or leg of the patient.

13. An operating room controlling system comprising:

a first controller connected to the one or two or more medical apparatuses provided in the operating room;

a second controller connected to the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses provided in the operating room;

a first memory section provided or connected to the first controller, and storing setting information of the one or two or more medical apparatuses, the setting information being pre-set corresponding to at least one of surgeon identification data, surgical technique identification data, and surgery location identification data;

a second memory section provided or connected to the second controller, and storing setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses, the setting information being pre-set corresponding to at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data;

an identification data directing section for directing by inputting or selecting at least one of the surgeon identification data and the surgical technique identification data; and

a setting section for performing a setting of the one or two or more medical apparatuses at the first controller, and a setting of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses connected to the second controller, based on at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data directed by the identification data directing section.

14. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the setting information of the one or two or more medical apparatuses includes information on use or non-use of the one or two or more medical apparatuses.

15. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the setting information on the one or two or more medical apparatuses includes information of a setting parameter of each of the one or two or more medical apparatuses.

16. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses includes information on use or non-use of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses.

17. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses includes information of a setting parameter of each of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses.

18. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the system comprises:

a third memory section provided or connected to the first controller, and storing setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses, the setting information being pre-set corresponding to at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data; and

a setting information collating section for collating between the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses in the second memory section, and the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses in the third memory section.

19. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 18, wherein

when the setting information collating section determines there is not a match between the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses in the second memory section, and the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses in the third memory section, the first controller performs a correcting processing for correcting the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses in the third memory section to match with a content communicated and received from the second controller.

20. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the first and second controllers are connected via a relay device.

21. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses include at least one of a room light in the operating room, a room camera in the operating room, a ceiling camera in the operating room, a reference image storage server, and an image recording device.

22. An operating room controlling system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the one or two or more medical apparatuses include at least an endoscope.

23. A controller connected to the one or two or more medical apparatuses provided in an operating room and to the second controller for controlling the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses provided in the operating room, comprising:

a first memory section for storing the setting information of the one or two or more medical apparatuses, the setting information being pre-set corresponding to at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data;

an identification data directing section for directing by inputting or selecting at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data;

a setting section for performing the setting of the one or two or more medical apparatuses at the first controller, based on at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data directed by the identification data directing section;

a second memory section provided or connected to the second controller, and storing the setting information of the one or two or more non-medical apparatuses, the setting information being pre-set corresponding to at least one of the surgeon identification data and the surgical technique identification data;

a sending section for sending to the second controller, at least one of the surgeon identification data, the surgical technique identification data, and the surgery location identification data directed by the identification data directing section.