Patent ID: 11877803
Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A system facilitating planning of a surgical procedure, the system comprising:
at least one input device configured to receive procedure information and patient information corresponding to a surgical procedure to be performed;
at least one storage device storing a record for each of a plurality of previous surgical procedures wherein at least one surgical instrument was utilized to perform the surgical procedure on tissue of a patient, each record including: surgical instrument information corresponding to the at least one surgical instrument utilized, procedure information corresponding to the surgical procedure performed on the tissue of the patient, and patient information corresponding to the patient; and
a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
identify similar previous surgical procedures from the plurality of previous surgical procedures by comparing the procedure information and the patient information of the surgical procedure to be performed with the procedure information and the patient information of the records;
identify outcome information for each of the identified similar previous surgical procedures, the outcome information indicating a success of each of the identified similar previous surgical procedures;
determine whether there is a correlation between the surgical instrument information of the identified similar previous surgical procedures and the success of the identified similar previous surgical procedures; and
if a correlation is determined, output the correlation to facilitate planning of the surgical procedure to be performed.