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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2008
Gerould W. Norman, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Charles F. Scott Carpenter, Neptune Beach, FL (US);
Michael L. Koltz, Jr., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Stephen R. Viviano, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Gerould W. Norman, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Charles F. Scott Carpenter, Neptune Beach, FL (US);
Michael L. Koltz, Jr., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Stephen R. Viviano, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A surgical fluid manager includes a pump releasably engageable to tubing and a user interface. The user interface is configured to enable finger-touch selection of a fluid flow rate through the tubing and configured to operate in at least one of a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the flow rate is controlled via direct selection of one of a plurality of selectable digital numeric values, while in the second mode the flow rate is controlled via user selection of one alphanumeric identifier within a scale of alphanumeric identifiers. Each respective alphanumeric identifier directly corresponds to just one instrument size within a scale of instrument sizes.