Method and apparatus for producing sterile surgical media
First Claim
1. For employment in a surgical operating room, the method of making available to a surgeon a quantity of a sterile medium, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) covering at least two closely adjacent basins with a sterile drape and contouring said drape to said basins to form drape receptacles within each of said basins;
(b) placing respective quantities of sterile media in said drape receptacles; and
(c) transferring thermal energy separately to each of said basins to control the temperature of the medium in each of said drape receptacles.
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Accused Products
Abstract
The features of a surgical slush machine are augmented by supplemental basins for surgical liquid to thereby permit simultaneous availability of warm and/or chilled liquid and/or surgical slush. The basins are disposed in close sequential adjacency, and a common sterile drape is disposed over and contoured to all of the basins to provide separate sterile receptacles in the drape for the various sterile media. Basin centering indicia on the drape facilitate deployment of the drape relative to the basins and selectively removable covers insulate and protect the sterile medium between periods of use. Cooling and heating of the respective basins is effected independently with individual power controls.
63 Citations
44 Claims
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1. For employment in a surgical operating room, the method of making available to a surgeon a quantity of a sterile medium, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) covering at least two closely adjacent basins with a sterile drape and contouring said drape to said basins to form drape receptacles within each of said basins; (b) placing respective quantities of sterile media in said drape receptacles; and (c) transferring thermal energy separately to each of said basins to control the temperature of the medium in each of said drape receptacles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. For employment in a surgical operating room, the method of making available to a surgeon a quantity of sterile medium, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) covering at least two closely adjacent basins with a sterile drape and contouring said drape to said basins to form drape receptacles within each of said basins; (b) extending said sterile drape over the top surface and sides of an assembly on which said at least two basins are secured; (c) placing a quantity of sterile medium in said drape receptacles; (d) transferring thermal energy from within said assembly to each of said at least two basins to control the temperature of the medium in said drape receptacles; and (e) disposing at least two centering indicia on said sterile drape at locations corresponding to the centers of said drape receptacles to facilitate proper positioning of said drape relative to said at least two basins during step (a). - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. Apparatus for providing a sterile surgical medium for use by a surgeon in a surgical operating room, said apparatus comprising:
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a housing having a top surface and sides; at least two basins supported in close mutual adjacency on said top surface of said housing; a sterile drape disposed on said housing covering said top surface and extending along said sides, said drape being conformable to said at least two basins to form drape receptacles in each of said corresponding basins for receiving said sterile surgical medium, said drape being impervious to the sterile surgical medium; and thermal energy transfer means disposed in said housing for individually and separately controlling the temperature of each of said basins and the sterile surgical medium disposed in said corresponding drape receptacles. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. Apparatus for providing a sterile surgical medium for use by a surgeon in a surgical operating room, said apparatus comprising:
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a housing having a top surface and sides; at least two basins supported in close adjacency on said top surface of said housing; a sterile drape disposed on said housing covering said top surface and extending along said sides, said drape being conformable to said at least two basins to form drape receptacles in each of said basins to receive said sterile surgical medium, said drape being impervious to the sterile surgical medium, wherein said drape includes at least two centering indicia at locations corresponding to the centers of said drape receptacles to facilitate proper placement of said drape relative to said at least two basins; and thermal energy transfer means disposed in said housing for controlling the temperature of each of said basins and the sterile surgical medium disposed in said corresponding drape receptacles. - View Dependent Claims (44)
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