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

Claim 19:
20. 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 plurality of pressure threshold settings, wherein the plurality of pressure threshold settings are greater than the minimum pressure and 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 a first pressure threshold setting of the plurality of pressure threshold settings, wherein the non-visual alert is provided before the vacuum pressure is automatically reduced.