Medical treatment system

• US 6,679,875 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2002
• Issued: 01/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Sakurai, Tomohisa, Honda, Yoshitaka, Miyazawa, Taro, Tanaka, Kazue
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROY DEAN
• Application Number:
  US10/074,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20020115917A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 606/1, 606/34-39, 606/40
• US Class Current: 606/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00042 for mechanical operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00045 Display arrangement
• 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 18/04 by heating by applying electromagnetic radiation A61B18/18; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields, radiation or ultrasound A61N
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/14 Probes or electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/20 using laser
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00017 Electrical control of surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00225 Systems for controlling multiple different instruments, e.g. microsurgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00973 pedal-operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320069 for ablating tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320082 for incising tissue

Abstract

A medical treatment system has medical treatment equipment and a control device that controls the operation of this medical treatment equipment. The medical treatment equipment has an operation control section that controls operation of a therapeutic instrument connected to the medical treatment equipment with respect to a selected single function thereof. The control device is constructed including a hand switch and foot switch. This hand switch and foot switch are provided with mode input sections. Also, the foot switch has an operating switch. The control device is constituted by a selection section that recognizes and selects an operating mode of the items of the medical treatment equipment in accordance with an operating mode signal from a mode input section of the hand switch or foot switch, a switchover section that is switched over such that an on/off signal from the operating switch of the foot switch is transmitted to the items of the medical treatment equipment selected by this selection section, and a display data generating section that generates display data for displaying on a monitor, using as an input signal the on/off condition of the operating switch of the foot switch or the operating mode of the item of the medical treatment equipment selected at the selection section.

Claims

1. A medical treatment system having medical treatment equipment and a control device that controls the operation of this medical treatment equipment, comprising:

an operation control section that controls operation of a therapeutic instrument connected to said medical treatment equipment with respect to a selected single function thereof;

a selection switchover section provided in said control device and that selects a single function in a therapeutic instrument by controlling said operation control section;

a selection input section that selectively inputs a single function in a therapeutic instrument by activating said selection switchover section by selection of the prescribed input section from among input sections arranged corresponding to the number of functions possessed by said therapeutic instrument; and

an operating switch that outputs operation instructions in respect of a single function in the therapeutic instrument selected by said selective input section to said selection switchover section.

2. The medical treatment system according to claim 1 wherein, when there are a plurality of said items of the medical treatment equipment, said selection switchover section selects a prescribed item of the medical treatment equipment selected by said selection input section from among said plurality of items of the medical treatment equipment and in addition selects one function in the therapeutic instrument.

3. The medical treatment system according to claim 1 wherein said control device comprises a display data generating section that generates display data for giving a notification in respect of a single function in the selected therapeutic instrument, in accordance with the selection result of said selection switchover section and causes display data generated by this display data generating section to be displayed in the display section.

4. The medical treatment system according to claim 3 wherein each single function in the therapeutic instrument displayed in said display section is displayed at different positions depending on the selection result of said selection input section or the selection result of said selection switchover section.

5. The medical treatment system according to claim 3 wherein each single function in the therapeutic instrument displayed in said display section is displayed in different colors depending on the selection result of said selection input section or the selection result of said selection switchover section.

6. The medical treatment system according to claim 3 wherein said selection input section outputs an alteration signal when alteration of a single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled is detected.

7. The medical treatment system according to claim 6 wherein said selection switchover section outputs a cancellation signal for canceling a single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled in response to the alteration signal from said selection input section to said display data generating section;

and

said display data generating section causes the cancellation condition of the single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled to be displayed in said display section in response to the cancellation signal of said selection switchover section.

8. The medical treatment system according to claim 6 comprising a notification section for giving a notification of this alteration of function in response to the alteration signal from said selection input section.

9. The medical treatment system according to claim 8 wherein said notification section generates vibration synchronized with the function alteration detected by said selection input section.

10. The medical treatment system according to claim 8 wherein said notification section generates sound synchronized with the function alteration detected by said selection input section.

11. A medical treatment system having medical treatment equipment and a control device that controls the operation of this medical treatment equipment, comprising:

an operation control section that controls operation of a therapeutic instrument connected to said medical treatment equipment with respect to a selected single function thereof;

a selection switchover section provided in said control device and that selects a single function in a therapeutic instrument by controlling said operation control section;

a selection input section that selectively inputs a single function in a therapeutic instrument by activating said selection switchover section by selection of the prescribed input section from among input sections arranged corresponding to the number of functions possessed by said treatment implement;

a switchover section that, when there is a plurality of items of said medical treatment equipment, selects a corresponding item of the medical treatment equipment from among said plurality of items of medical treatment equipment in accordance with a single function in the therapeutic instrument selected by said selection switchover section and

an operating switch that outputs operation instructions in respect of a single function in the therapeutic instrument selected by said selective input section to said selection switchover section.

12. The medical treatment system according to claim 11 wherein said control device comprises a display data generating section that generates display data for giving a notification in respect of a single function in the therapeutic instrument of the selected item of the medical treatment equipment, in accordance with the selection result of said selection switchover section, and causes display data generated by this display data generating section to be displayed in the display section.

13. The medical treatment system according to claim 12 wherein each single function in the therapeutic instrument of the item of the medical treatment equipment displayed in said display section is displayed at different positions depending on the selection result of said selection input section or the selection result of said selection switchover section.

14. The medical treatment system according to claim 12 wherein each single function in the treatment implement of the item of the medical treatment equipment displayed in said display section is displayed in different colors depending on the selection result of said selection input section or the selection result of said selection switchover section.

15. The medical treatment system according to claim 12 wherein said selection input section outputs an alteration signal when alteration of a single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled is detected.

16. The medical treatment system according to claim 15 wherein said selection switchover section outputs a cancellation signal for canceling a single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled in response to the alteration signal from said selection input section to said display data generating section;

and

said display data generating section causes the cancellation condition of the single function in the therapeutic instrument that is currently being driven and controlled to be displayed in said display section in response to the cancellation signal of said selection switchover section.

17. The medical treatment system according to claim 15 comprising a notification section for giving a notification of this alteration of function in response to the alteration signal from said selection input section.

18. The medical treatment system according to claim 17 wherein said notification section generates vibration synchronized with the function alteration detected by said selection input section.

19. The medical treatment system according to claim 17 wherein said notification section generates sound synchronized with the function alteration detected by said selection input section.