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Computing, Robotics, and Imaging for the Surgical Platform

Table 1 Sensors targeting key events at each step of the procedure

From: An intelligent hospital operating room to improve patient health care

Step of procedure

Event target

Sensor type

Instrument/back table setup

Instrument racks placed on table

Pressure sensing strip

Patient brought into OR

Stretcher crossing door threshold

Pressure sensing strip

Patient transferred to OR table

Patient weight transferred from stretcher to table

Pressure sensing strip

Induction of anesthesia

Ventilation initiation

Small motion detection camera

Operation

First incision

Scalpel pick up detection

Reversal of anesthesia/extubate

Ventilator cessation

Small motion detection camera (same one as induction of anesthesia)

Patient transferred to stretcher

Patient weight transferred from table to stretcher

Pressure sensing strip (same one as prior)

Patient taken to recovery room

Stretcher crossing door threshold

Pressure sensing strip (same one as prior)

Occupancy of the OR

Movement in the OR

Infrared detector