Patent ID: 11969380
Assignee: JOHNSON & JOHNSON SURGICAL VISION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 33:
34. A method for managing occlusions during phacoemulsification surgery, the method comprising:
providing, by a surgical console having at least one system bus communicatively connected to at least one computing processor capable of accessing at least one computing memory associated with the at least one computing processor, a vacuum system comprising three regions capable of providing a vacuum pressure between a minimum pressure and a maximum pressure;
receiving a first pressure threshold setting and a second pressure threshold setting, wherein the first pressure threshold setting is greater than the minimum pressure, the second pressure threshold setting is greater than the first pressure threshold setting, and the second pressure threshold setting is less than the maximum pressure;
displaying, on a graphical user interface, current aspiration, vacuum, and power settings; and
providing a non-visual notification to an operator when the vacuum pressure is greater than the first pressure threshold setting;
wherein the three regions capable of providing vacuum pressure are normal state, weak occlusion state, and strong occlusion state;
wherein each of the three regions possess respective settings comprising power level, pressure, and pressure threshold;
wherein the normal state is between the minimum pressure and the first pressure threshold setting, the weak occlusion state is between the first pressure threshold setting and the second pressure threshold setting, and the strong occlusion state is between the second pressure threshold setting and the maximum pressure; and
wherein the non-visual notification is provided before the strong occlusion state.