Systems and methods for controlling use and operation of a family of different treatment devices

• US 9,292,152 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2012
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mederi Rf, LLC
• Original Assignee: Mederi Therapeutics, Inc. (Respiratory Technology Corp.)
• Inventors: Shikhman, Oleg, Rutan, William W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hupczey, Jr., Ronald
• Assistant Examiner(s): VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A
• Application Number:
  US13/646,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20130197512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,263 Days
• Field of Search: 606/33, 606/34, 606 41- 50
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/02 by cooling, e.g. cryogenic techniques devices for cooling specific reflex points of the body within cell-life limits A61H39/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/08 by means of electrically-heated probes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1206 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1477 Needle-like probes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1485 having a short rigid shaft for accessing the inner body through natural openings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1492 having a flexible, catheter-like structure, e.g. for heart ablation A61B18/1477 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/18 by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves radiation therapy A61N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1815 using microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/20 using laser
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00553 Sphincter
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/0212 using an instrument inserted into a body lumen, e.g. catheter
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/044 the surgical action being effected by a circulating hot fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1425 Needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1807 using light other than laser radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1861 with an instrument inserted into a body lumen or cavity, e.g. a catheter
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2065 Tracking using image or pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/252 indicating steps of a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/254 being adapted depending on the stage of the surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2218/002 Irrigation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2218/007 Aspiration
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/20 : Surgical navigation systems; Devices for tracking or guiding surgical instruments, e.g. for frameless stereotaxis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 : User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2007/0043 : intra-cavitary
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/00 : Ultrasound therapy lithotripsy A61B17/22, A61B17/225; massage using supersonic vibration A61H23/00 ; using ultrasound for introducing media into the body A61M37/0092
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 : Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 : using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 : Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 : for local operation

Abstract

A system for controlling a treatment device generates a graphical interface that visually prompts a user in a step-wise fashion to use the treatment device to perform a process of forming a pattern of lesions that extends both circumferentially and axially in different levels in a body region. The graphical interface displays for the user a visual record of the progress of the process from start to finish and guides the user so that so that individual lesions desired within a given level are all formed, and that a given level of lesions is not skipped.

Claims

1. A system for treating a tissue region of a patient by applying radiofrequency energy to the tissue region via a plurality of electrodes to create a series of tissue lesions at a series of different tissue levels to perform a surgical procedure, the system comprising a controller for identifying whether a first radiofrequency treatment device or a second different radiofrequency treatment device is attached to the controller, and an operation system providing a first visual indication of which treatment device is identified by the controller and at a single time simultaneously displaying on a single screen a visual record of progress during the surgical procedure for all tissue levels by providing a second visual indication of completion of tissue lesion creation at each different tissue level and a number of lesions formed within each different tissue level and number of lesions to be formed at each different tissue level.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller includes a reader, the reader is configured to read a coded identification component of the first radiofrequency treatment device or the second radiofrequency treatment device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the controller includes a reader, the reader is configured to read a coded identification component is positioned in a handle of the first radiofrequency treatment device or the second radiofrequency treatment device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the system includes the first radiofrequency treatment device in communication with the controller, the operation system includes a balloon icon to indicate inflation of a balloon of the first radiofrequency treatment device, the balloon icon containing a schematic depiction of the inflated balloon.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system includes the second radiofrequency treatment device in communication with the controller, the controller is adapted to treat a region of a lower gastro-intestinal tract to treat fecal incontinence.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system includes the first radiofrequency treatment device in communication with the controller and adapted to treat a lower esophageal sphincter to treat gastro-esophageal reflux disease.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the operation system is adapted to provide a third visual indication of a tissue parameter in real time during the surgical procedure.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operation system is adapted to provide a fourth visual indication of an electrode parameter in real time during the surgical procedure.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operation system is adapted to provide a fourth visual indication of an electrode parameter in real time during the surgical procedure.

10. A graphical user interface comprising a graphical display having a first icon to indicate attachment of a first treatment device and a second different icon to indicate attachment of a second treatment device, the first icon configured to provide a schematic depiction of the first treatment device and the second icon configured to provide a schematic depiction of the second treatment device to enable a user to visualize the type of instrument on the graphical display, the first treatment device having a balloon, the graphical display configured to display a third icon to depict balloon inflation, the third icon containing a schematic depiction of an inflated balloon to prompt a physician to expand the balloon of the first treatment device, wherein the third icon is configured to disappear during treatment and configured to reappear only after treatment at a lesion level.

11. The graphical user interface of claim 10, wherein connection of the first treatment device displays a first electrode geometry on the graphical user interface and connection of the second treatment device displays a second different electrode geometry on the graphical user interface, wherein the first electrode geometry corresponds to a first electrode array of the first treatment device and the second electrode geometry corresponds to a second electrode array of the second treatment device.

12. The graphical user interface of claim 11, wherein the first electrode geometry is for an upper gastro-intestinal tract procedure and the graphical user interface is configured to depict electrodes spaced apart about a 360 degree circle.

13. The graphical user interface of claim 11, wherein the second electrode geometry is for a lower gastro-intestinal tract procedure and the graphical user interface is configured to depict a plurality of electrodes spaced along an arcuate sector of less than 180 degrees.