Patent ID: 11963827
Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 18:
19. A surgical system for accounting of surgical sponges, the surgical system comprising:
a handheld scanner including an antenna capable of emitting a radio frequency detection field, wherein the handheld scanner is operable in a first operating mode to scan in sponges to a surgical procedure and in a second operating mode to scan out sponges from the surgical procedure;
a first package including packaging, a first surgical sponge, and a second surgical sponge, with the first surgical sponge and the second surgical sponge being in the packaging,
the first surgical sponge including a first RF tag and the second surgical sponge including a second RF tag, the first RF tag including a first memory segment, a second memory segment, a third memory segment, and a fourth memory segment, the first memory segment being programmed with a package identifier, the second memory segment being programmed with a first unique identifier, the third memory segment being programmed with an object type, and the fourth memory segment being programmed with a number of objects in the first package, wherein the package identifier is different from the first unique identifier; and
control circuitry adapted to:
operate the handheld scanner to simultaneously confirm presence of the first RF tag and the second RF tag;
receive a response signal from the first RF tag, the response signal comprising data received from the first RF tag, with the response signal including data representing the package identifier, the object type, and the number of objects in the first package;
determine a number of surgical sponges supposed to be in the first package based on the response signal;
determine a number of sponges that are in the first package;
utilize the response signal to add the second surgical sponge to a list of items being detected, with the second surgical sponge having not yet been scanned;
control a visual display to display data that represents object type based on the object type programmed on the first RF tag; and
control the visual display to simultaneously display sponge entry data and sponge exit data.