Professional-Grade Laparoscopic Surgical Instrument Needle Holder for Adults

FAQ

How to deal with the sudden failure of minimally invasive surgical instruments during surgery?

To deal with the sudden failure of minimally invasive surgical instruments during surgery, you can refer to the following steps and measures:

Quick response: Medical staff must be able to quickly identify abnormal situations and take immediate action. This requires not only solid professional knowledge and skills, but also the ability to remain calm and focused in a high-pressure environment.

Emergency equipment management process: The hospital should establish a complete emergency equipment management process to ensure that emergency equipment can be used quickly in an emergency. Regularly organize training and drills to improve the emergency handling and teamwork capabilities of surgical staff.

Preoperative evaluation and preparation: Carefully evaluate the patient's skin and the performance of equipment and instruments before surgery, and standardize operation and use. For example, before using a high-frequency electric knife, you should master the model, function, power and use of the electric knife, correctly connect each lead wire, and check whether the machine is operating normally.

Common fault handling: For common faults, such as the broken core of the electrocoagulation forceps and the lack of power to the cable, they should be repaired or replaced in time. For example, measures such as repairing the core and reconnecting the cable can effectively solve these problems.

Regular inspection and maintenance: Regular inspection and maintenance of medical devices to ensure that they are in good working condition. Replace worn parts in time and adjust the mechanical structure to avoid failures.

Emergency plan: Develop a detailed emergency plan to clarify the responsible persons and operating procedures of each link. During the operation, if a failure occurs, take countermeasures quickly according to the plan.

Through the above measures, we can effectively deal with the sudden failure of minimally invasive surgical instruments during surgery and ensure the smooth progress of the operation.

What are the common types of minimally invasive surgical instrument failures and their causes?

The common types of minimally invasive surgical instrument failures and their causes mainly include the following aspects:

Imperfect management process: The root cause of many minimally invasive surgical instruments being damaged is imperfect management process and lack of familiarity with the use and handling of minimally invasive instruments. This may cause problems during the use, transportation and cleaning of the instruments.

High precision requirements: The processing accuracy and compatibility requirements of minimally invasive surgical instruments are very high, and the processing equipment of ordinary surgical instruments cannot meet these requirements. Therefore, a higher precision composite machining center is required in the production process. If the equipment or process in the production process is improper, it may also cause instrument failure.

Cleaning and sterilization issues: Laparoscopic surgical instruments have certain problems in the cleaning and sterilization process. Due to their high precision, traditional cleaning and sterilization methods may not be fully applicable, resulting in damage to the instruments.

Electronic endoscope failure: As a precision medical device, electronic endoscopes frequently fail, resulting in high maintenance costs. Such failures may be related to damage to electronic components or software problems.

Robotic arm control system problems: For example, the da Vinci surgical robot, the cause of its robotic arm control system failure is generally difficult to determine, and it is difficult to solve it in time during the operation. Such failures may be related to hardware design or software programming.

Common types of minimally invasive surgical instrument failures include imperfect management processes, production problems caused by high precision requirements, improper cleaning and sterilization, damage to electronic components of electronic endoscopes, and failure of robotic arm control systems.

How to design an effective medical device emergency plan to deal with sudden failures?

Designing an effective medical device emergency plan to deal with sudden failures requires comprehensive consideration of multiple aspects, including prevention, emergency response, resource preparation, and continuous improvement. The following are the detailed design steps:

Basic principles for making plans:

Prevention first, always be prepared: improve the awareness of emergency operations, prevent sudden public health events and geological disasters, implement various preventive measures, and make emergency reserves of personnel, technology, materials and equipment.

Confirm the fault:

When an abnormality is found in the equipment, it is first necessary to confirm whether it is a real fault. Sometimes the abnormality of the equipment may be caused by improper operation or other factors.

Repair registration:

Once the equipment failure is confirmed, the fault situation should be recorded in the fault repair system immediately and the maintenance department should be notified in time.

Emergency notification and evaluation:

After receiving the emergency notification, the emergency team immediately organizes relevant personnel, evaluates the situation, and notifies the emergency command center.

Procurement and preparation of resources:

Notify the procurement department to purchase a sufficient number of medical devices and ensure their quality and safety.

Training and guidance:

Train and guide relevant personnel to properly use and maintain medical equipment in emergency situations to ensure that they can handle faults quickly and effectively.

Cross-departmental collaboration:

The development of emergency plans for medical equipment repairs requires cross-departmental collaboration, including the participation of maintenance departments, medical staff and management. In the process of plan formulation, the actual situation and resource capacity of medical institutions should be fully considered.

Drills and improvements:

Conduct emergency drills regularly to simulate incident discovery and reporting, emergency response, command and coordination, on-site investigation, risk control, collaborative tracing, response termination and other links to ensure the familiarity and emergency response capabilities of all relevant personnel.
Continuously improve equipment failure management, establish a knowledge base for medical equipment failures, collect and share equipment failure cases and solutions, and provide them to medical staff for reference and training.

Control of hazards:

The focus of medical device emergency plans is to control hazards and ensure patient safety and continuity of medical services.

What are the best practices for regular inspection and maintenance of medical devices?

The best practices for regular inspection and maintenance of medical devices include the following aspects:

Establish a maintenance and repair management system: Medical and health institutions should establish a medical device maintenance and repair management system or regulations. Medical devices that require regular inspection, testing, calibration, maintenance, and maintenance should be operated in accordance with the requirements of the product manual.

Comply with the instructions and national standards: The user unit shall comply with the requirements of the medical device instructions and relevant national standards and regulations, and regularly test, evaluate and maintain the use environment of the medical device.

Preventive maintenance: Preventive maintenance is an important measure to ensure that the medical device is in good condition. Specifically, it includes appearance inspection, accessory integrity inspection, function inspection (such as self-test function, display function, alarm function, button and knob function), mechanical part cleaning and lubrication, instrument dust removal and maintenance parts inspection or replacement, and electrical safety inspection.

Recording and analysis: When conducting inspections, tests, calibrations, maintenance, and maintenance, timely analysis and evaluation should be carried out, and relevant records should be kept for subsequent management and maintenance.

Special storage and transportation conditions: According to the requirements in the medical device instructions, ensure that it is kept in good condition under special storage and transportation conditions.

In a high-pressure environment, how can medical staff stay calm and focused to quickly identify and handle surgical instrument failures?

In a high-pressure environment, the methods for medical staff to stay calm and focused to quickly identify and handle surgical instrument failures include the following aspects:

Stay calm and professional: When facing an emergency, medical staff should maintain a calm and professional attitude. This not only helps them better deal with emergencies, but also provides confidence and support for patients.

Avoid impatience and complaints: When dealing with surgical instrument failures, medical staff need to remain calm and patient, and avoid negative emotions such as impatience, irritability and complaints, as these emotions will further affect the smooth progress of the operation.

Timely communication and coordination: When equipment failure occurs during surgery, medical staff should communicate with the equipment department or manufacturer engineers in a timely manner, and strive to get online guidance and problem-solving support in the shortest time. This can minimize surgical risks and ensure the smooth progress of the operation.

Master basic knowledge and skills: Medical staff should master some basic equipment operation and troubleshooting knowledge through training and practice. This includes understanding the phenomena of common faults and their treatment methods, such as the specific processing steps for the switching power supply failure of high-frequency electrosurgical knives and high-frequency power amplifier failures.

Use automated tools: Using modern automated tools and technologies, such as the surgical instrument recognition system based on improved YOLOv5, can significantly reduce manual inventory errors and improve the accuracy and efficiency of surgical instrument recognition.

Preventive measures: By using methods such as FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), potential risk factors can be identified in advance and corresponding measures can be taken to prevent them, which can reduce the occurrence of surgical instrument failures to a certain extent.

For minimally invasive surgical instruments, what advanced technologies or tools can improve the efficiency of fault diagnosis and resolution?

For minimally invasive surgical instruments, there are a variety of advanced technologies or tools that can improve the efficiency of fault diagnosis and resolution:

Neural visualization spinal minimally invasive surgical navigation system: This system uses advanced surgical instrument positioning technology, combined with cutting-edge medical imaging technology and artificial intelligence algorithms, to provide safe and accurate navigation during surgery, thereby improving surgical efficiency by 2-3 times.

Robotic surgical system: For example, the latest generation of surgical robots used by Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital can improve the overall level of minimally invasive surgery, improve the stability and accuracy of surgery, and effectively supplement endoscopic minimally invasive surgery. Weigao's "Miaoshou" robot uses multi-degree-of-freedom wire transmission decoupling design technology and binocular endoscope stereo imaging and dynamic convergence technology to make the image three-dimensional and clear, reduce visual errors, and thus improve surgical efficiency.

Intelligent flexible minimally invasive surgical instruments with controllable stiffness: This instrument can be precisely manufactured through plasma-induced atomic migration manufacturing technology, and the accuracy of system performance evaluation and fault diagnosis is high.

Big data and artificial intelligence: By analyzing medical images, clinical data, etc., more accurate diagnosis and surgical plans can be provided to assist doctors in making more optimized decisions.

Visual detection and tracking algorithms: Visual detection and tracking of minimally invasive surgical instruments is one of the core algorithms of surgical robots. With the development of machine vision and robotics technology, virtual reality, three-dimensional reconstruction, path planning, human-machine collaboration and other related technologies can be applied to surgical operations to assist clinicians or use surgical robots to complete clinical operations.

Force feedback system: In the vascular interventional surgical robot system, the force feedback system can perform fault diagnosis and alarm, thereby improving the safety of the overall surgical process.

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