The operating room system for endoscopic surgery: Project OREST IR

SummaryMinimally invasive interventions require a multitude of technical devices, like gas-insufflators, cameras, light-sources, high-frequency and others. The devices available today represent stand-alone ‘function-insulas’ from the view-point of systems technique. They have to be placed in the operating theatre and set up right before each specific intervention. From each single devices supplies, cables and hoses lead to the body of the patient. They have to be connected on both sides, within the sterile and the non-sterile field. One of the major drawbacks lies in the lack of direct control of the devices by the surgeon and the confusing display of parameters and the technical status. On this background the systematic revision of the current endo-surgical work-place appears to be a major requirement for further technical and surgical progress in endoscopic surgery. In close cooperation between surgeons and engineers a systems work-place for minimally invasive surgery, OREST, has been developed and clin...