WO2024136816A1

WO2024136816A1 - Angel arm of the surgical operating table

Info

Publication number: WO2024136816A1
Application number: PCT/TR2023/051587
Authority: WO
Inventors: Mümin Gökhan ŞENOCAK; Taha Çağri ŞENOCAK; Esra AKTAŞ ŞENOCAK
Original assignee: Atatuerk Ueniversitesi Fikri Muelkiyet Haklari Koordinatoerluegue Doener Sermaye Isletmesi
Current assignee: Atatuerk Ueniversitesi Fikri Muelkiyet Haklari Koordinatoerluegue Doener Sermaye Isletmesi
Priority date: 2022-12-20
Filing date: 2023-12-19
Publication date: 2024-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 2025-06-20

Abstract

The invention relates to an interface system, which can be sterilized, can be mounted on the operating table or reduces the number of auxiliary personnel needed in the operation by gathering the cable-hose crowd formed as a result of washing the operation area with warm solutions during surgical interventions by placing them individually on mobile legs and positioning them around the operating table, giving warm serum to the patient, absorbing the liquids in the operation area, using different antiseptics in the operation area, using electrical devices such as monopolar-bipolar electrocautery, ligasure and administering a bolus of anesthetic substances to the patient in a single center, allowing the same to be managed with the monopoly of the operator.

Description

ANGEL ARM OF THE SURGICAL OPERATING TABLE

Technical Field

Prior Art

In order to transport a device or solution in the non-sterile area to the sterile area in operating rooms when the number of personnel is low during the operation; the operator and/or the person directly involved in the operation must take off their sterile gloves, carry the device or solution they need to the sterile area, and then put on their sterile gloves again. This situation creates the risk of both neglect of the operation depending on time and cross contamination.

Generally, in operating rooms, non-sterile cables-hoses enter the sterile area from many points. Managing this crowd of cables and hoses, re-sterilising materials that have fallen on the floor or whose sterility has deteriorated, or retrieving the needed material from its defined area by going to the moment of need, may cause loss of time during the operation, especially in environments where the number of personnel is low, prolonging the operation and causing the patient to stay under anaesthesia longer, which may lead to an increase in the mortality rate. In the patent document numbered JP2021035488A, which is in the prior art regarding the subject, a table on which the patient is placed is planned to support the movement of the tabletop with an articulated robot arm. The system is configured to communicate with a supervisory information management device to receive information indicating a specified patient position based on an image of the patient. The articulated robot arm is configured to move the tabletop to a position of the operating table top, which is a position of the table top at a time when surgery is being performed on the patient based on position information received from the examination information management device.

When the studies in the prior art are examined, it is generally focused on increasing the mobility of the operator and/or the patient during the operation in the operating room and providing ease of operation. Eliminating both the time-related risk and the risk of cross-contamination during operation is currently a serious requirement.

In the prior art, the angel arm of the surgical operating table and its advantages are not available, in addition, the angel arm of the surgical operating table can be mounted on the operating table, as well as on wheeled mechanisms, and can be positioned around the operating table in a mobile manner.

Brief Description of the Invention

The invention relates to an interface system that fulfils the above-mentioned requirements, eliminating all disadvantages, which can be sterilized, can be mounted on the operating table or reduces the number of auxiliary personnel needed in the operation by gathering the cable-hose crowd formed as a result of washing the operation area with warm solutions during surgical interventions by placing them individually on mobile legs and positioning them around the operating table, giving warm serum to the patient, absorbing the liquids in the operation area, using different antiseptics in the operation area, using electrical devices such as monopolar-bipolar electrocautery, ligasure and administering a bolus of anesthetic substances to the patient in a single center, allowing the same to be managed with the monopoly of the operator. The primary aim of the invention is to clearly distinguish between sterile and non- sterile areas with sterile and non-sterile faces.

Another aim of the invention is to collect the cables and hoses used in surgical intervention at a single point in the sterile field, to provide them sterile and with connection ports suitable for the hose/cable.

Another aim of the invention is to make the sterile cable hose preparation, which is routinely performed by second or third persons during the operation by a single person before the operation and to make the same ready for sterile use by a single person in cases where the number of personnel is insufficient and / or when it is necessary to work with less personnel.

Another aim of the invention is to prevent the prolongation of the operation and the increase in the mortality rate by causing the patient to stay under anesthesia longer by eliminating the disruptions that cause loss of time during the operation.

Another aim of the invention is to improve working conditions and to increase employee and patient comfort during the operation.

The structural and characteristic features of the present invention will be understood clearly by the following detailed description. Therefore, the evaluation shall be made by taking this detailed description into consideration.

Detailed Description of the Invention

In this detailed explanation, angel arm of the surgical operating table is presented for a better understanding of the subject and in a way that does not create any limiting effect.

The invention is an interface system, which can be sterilized, can be mounted on the operating table or reduces the number of auxiliary personnel needed in the operation by gathering the cable-hose crowd formed as a result of washing the operation area with warm solutions during surgical interventions by placing them individually on mobile legs and positioning them around the operating table, giving warm serum to the patient, absorbing the liquids in the operation area, using different antiseptics in the operation area, using electrical devices such as monopolar-bipolar electrocautery, ligasure and administering a bolus of anesthetic substances to the patient in a single center, allowing the same to be managed with the monopoly of the operator.

In its most preferred form, the present invention is an interface system that separates sterile and non-sterile areas, collects the cables and hoses used in the surgical intervention at a single point in the sterile area, can be used by a single person in cases where the number of personnel is insufficient and / or less personnel is required, eliminates time loss and cross contamination during surgery, improves working conditions, and increases employee and patient comfort during the operation.

In its more preferred form, the invention is a surgical operating table service arm (angel arm).

Figure 1 is the view of the sterile face (16) of the angel arm of the surgical operating table. The parts expressed with numbers in Figure 1 are as follows; 1 : angel arm head that can be separated from the operating table and sterilized, 2: fixation body on which the head sits, 3: carrier body that connects the fixation body to the operating table, 4: aspirator (absorbent) connecting interface, 5: warm sterile saline connecting interface, 6: warm diluted chlorhexidine connecting interface, 7: warm povidone iodine binding interface, 8: first injectable anesthetic bolus injection binding interface, 9: second injectable anesthetic bolus injection binding interface, 10: connecting interface for any liquid substance likely to be given as an infusion, 11 : sterile isotonic irrigation solution, 12: monopolar electrocautery connecting interface, 13: bipolar electrocautery ligation interface, 14: ligasure ligation interface, 15: hose, pen, cautery and ligasure hangers.

Figure 2 is the view of the non-sterile back side (17) of the angle arm of the surgical operating table. Figure 3 shows the view of the angel arm of the surgical operating table mounted on the operating table (18).

The outer casing of the angle arm of the surgical operating table and the inner connecting tubes that provide fluid transmission are made of chrome material, and the intermediate plugs that will transmit the connection of electrical devices such as ligasure and electrocautery from one side to the other are resistant to high temperatures such as 250 ^<C.

It is a washable and sterilisable interface system that can be mounted on the operating table or individually positioned around the operating table on mobile legs, acting as a barrier that carries cables and hoses outside the sterile field to the sterile field in a sterile way without creating suspicion, at the same time allowing the preoperative connection of the cables and hoses that need to be used during the operation and allowing the operator to access the cables and hoses from a single centre during the operation.

The angle arm of the surgical operating table with all these features is an auxiliary interface system. It will be able to meet the operator's operational needs without leaving the operation and without the risk of contamination, gathering the crowd of cables and/or hoses to a single point, connecting the cables and/or hoses to the ports on the non-sterile side of the angel arm of the surgical operating table before the operation, while the operator is not yet dressed in sterile clothes, and then sitting on the body of the angel arm of the surgical operating table on the operating table, after the operator is dressed in sterile clothes and gloves, by connecting sterile cables and hoses to the output ends on the sterile side of the angel arm of the surgical operation table, the cables and/or hoses will become monopolistically controllable in a single centre, sterile and within the operator's reach.

With the method of the invention; the sterile area and non-sterile area will be clearly separated by the sterile and non-sterile side of the angel arm of the surgical operating table service, the cables and hoses used in the surgical intervention will be collected at a single point in the sterile area and the comfort of the working environment will be ensured, and the operation activities can be safely managed by a single person in cases where the number of personnel is insufficient and I or when it is necessary to work with less personnel, by eliminating the disruptions that cause loss of time during the operation, it will prevent the prolongation of the operation and the increase in the mortality rate by causing the patient to stay under anaesthesia longer, and by improving the working conditions, the comfort of the employee and the patient will be increased during the operation.

Claims

1. An interface system of the angle arm of the surgical operating table, characterized in that, can be mounted on the operating table or positioned individually around the operating table by sitting on wheeled legs.

2. A method according to claim 1 , characterized in that; acts as a barrier that carries the cables and hoses outside the sterile field to the sterile field in a sterile manner without causing any suspicion.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that; allows the cables and hoses that need to be used during the operation to be connected before the operation.

4. The method according to claim 2 and claim 3, characterized in that; a washable and sterilizable interface that allows the operator to access the cables and hoses from a single center during the operation.