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

Claim 11:
12. A system for managing occlusions during phacoemulsification surgery, the system comprising:
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;
at least one vacuum source associated with the surgical console for providing a vacuum pressure between a minimum pressure and a maximum pressure;
a phacoemulsification surgical handpiece having at a distal end at least one surgical tool and having at a proximate end a receiver for receiving an aspiration line from the surgical console; and
an input device for 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,
wherein the surgical console provides a user of the surgical console a non-visual alert when the vacuum pressure is greater than the first pressure threshold setting, wherein the non-visual alert is provided before the vacuum pressure is automatically reduced.