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

• US 9,310,956 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2012
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• 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, Ronald
• Assistant Examiner(s): VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A
• Application Number:
  US13/646,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20130197508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,284 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 graphical user interface for an electrosurgical procedure for treatment of a sphincter in a gastro-intestinal tract of a patient, the electrosurgical procedure including applying radiofrequency energy through a plurality of radiofrequency electrodes to create a plurality of lesions at axially spaced levels of tissue, the graphical user interface comprising a graphical display having first and second sections, the first section providing an indication of at least one measured parameter of an electrode or of tissue at a treatment site and the second section providing a graphic indication of a number of lesions formed at each of the axially spaced levels of tissue and the number of lesions not formed at each of the axially spaced levels of tissue, wherein the graphic indication of the second section includes a plurality of shapes arranged in a stacked relationship, the plurality of shapes corresponding to a number of levels of the axially spaced levels of tissue and showing the number of lesions formed at each different tissue level of the axially spaced levels of tissue and the number of lesions not formed at each different tissue level of the axially spaced levels of tissue.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the at least one measured parameter indicates a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter providing a tissue temperature value and the second parameter providing an impedance value.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 2, wherein the first section further includes a timer icon indicating an elapsed amount of time, the tissue temperature value and the impedance value displayed in an array around the timer icon.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the first section includes a timer icon and the at least one measured parameter includes three parameters, the three parameters being an electrode temperature value, a tissue temperature value and an electrode impedance value, the electrode temperature value, the tissue temperature value and the electrode impedance value associated with each of the plurality of radiofrequency electrodes arranged in a linear array, and a number and arrangement of the linear arrays corresponding to a number and arrangement of the plurality of radiofrequency electrodes.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 4, wherein the graphical display indicates within the linear array if an electrode channel of an electrosurgical device having the plurality of radiofrequency electrodes is disabled.