TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure is generally related to an apparatus, a system, and a method for tool edge computing sensors and more particularly related to an apparatus for monitoring a surgical tool.

BACKGROUND

More than 200 million surgeries are performed worldwide each year, and recent reports reveal that adverse event rates for surgical conditions remain unacceptably high, despite traditional patient safety initiatives. Adverse events resulting from surgical interventions can be related to errors occurring before or after the procedure as well as technical surgical errors during the operation. For example, adverse events can occur due to (i) breakdown in communication within and among the surgical team, care providers, patients, and their families; (ii) delay in diagnosis or failure to diagnose; and (iii) delay in treatment or failure to treat. The risk of complications during surgery can include anesthesia complications, hemorrhaging, high blood pressure, a rise or fall in body temperature, etc. Such adverse events can further occur due to medical errors, infections, underlying physical or health conditions of the patient, reactions to anesthetics or other drugs, etc. Conventional methods for preventing wrong-site, wrong-person, wrong-procedure errors, or retained foreign objects are typically based on communication between the patient, the surgeon(s), and other members of the health care team. However, conventional methods are typically insufficient to prevent surgical errors and adverse events during surgery.

