MONITORING SURFACE CLEANING OF MEDICAL SURFACES USING VIDEO STREAMING

• Main Authors: FERRANTE, Joseph, SWART, Elliot, GROSS, Kelsey, J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 07.08.2024
• Subjects: ALARM SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CLEANING; CLEANING IN GENERAL; COFFEE MILLS; DIAGNOSIS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FURNITURE; 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; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL; SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SIGNALLING; SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; SURGERY; TOILET ACCESSORIES; TRANSPORTING

A cleaning wizard monitors and provides feedback for cleaning of medical equipment to ensure that cleaning is performed based on best practices. The cleaning wizard receives a video stream comprising an item of medical equipment and inputs a first set of video frames from the video stream into a first machine learning model. The first machine learning model is trained to output whether the first set of video frames corresponds to activity that initiates a cleaning protocol for the item of medical equipment. Responsive to the cleaning protocol being initiated, the cleaning wizard inputs a second set of video frames into a second machine learning model trained to output whether the second set of frames meets criteria of the cleaning protocol. Responsive to all criteria of the cleaning protocol not being met, the cleaning wizard transmits a notification to an operator to restart the cleaning protocol.