SMOKE EVACUATION SYSTEM INCLUDING A SEGMENTED CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR INTERACTIVE SURGICAL PLATFORM

• Main Authors: DANZIGER, Benjamin J, SHELTON, IV Frederick E, HARRIS, Jason L, YATES, David C
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.07.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS; GENERATION; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; SURGERY

Surgical systems can include evacuation systems for evacuating smoke, fluid, and/or particulates from a surgical site. A surgical evacuation system can be intelligent and may include one or more sensors for detecting one or more properties of the surgical system, evacuation system, surgical procedure, surgical site, and/or patient tissue, for example. The surgical system may include a segmented control circuit, a method of operating a segmented control circuit in a surgical evacuation system may include activating a first segment that includes a main processor and a safety processor. The first segment is caused to perform a first function. A second segment is activated where the second segment includes a sensing circuit and a display circuit. A third segment is activated where the third segment includes a motor control circuit and a motor.