TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of identification system for surgical instruments using UHF Band RFID and low-intensity antennae
AU - Hosaka, Ryosuke
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number 23590623, 26460871 and 17K09248. Author acknowledges to TEIJIN LIMITED.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Post-op vestigial remnant of surgical instruments in the body is a very serious problem. The current two-dimensional symbol system is being used to help manage this problem. However, the two-dimensional symbols have to be identified one at a time, since the symbols are a sort of printed matter. An HF band passive RFID system was also proposed. This system also had problems in identifying the signals of a large number of surgical instruments in bulk, since the scope of its identification area was relatively small. To improve the deficiencies of this system, a UHF band passive RFID system was developed. The authors have also proposed a new low-intensity antennae for the UHF band passive RFID system. This new system cannot radiate an electrical field strong enough to interfere with medical equipment and should not pose a problem to any electronic equipment in the operating room. From our experimental results using 50 surgical instruments, all the instruments were identified in less than one second with this new RFID system, even when the instruments were covered with water residue. These results are very promising and indicate that the proposed RFID system will be an improvement to the surgical instrument management systems currently being used. This new system will also undoubtedly reduce the workload of surgical nurses, while reducing human error in the operating room.
AB - Post-op vestigial remnant of surgical instruments in the body is a very serious problem. The current two-dimensional symbol system is being used to help manage this problem. However, the two-dimensional symbols have to be identified one at a time, since the symbols are a sort of printed matter. An HF band passive RFID system was also proposed. This system also had problems in identifying the signals of a large number of surgical instruments in bulk, since the scope of its identification area was relatively small. To improve the deficiencies of this system, a UHF band passive RFID system was developed. The authors have also proposed a new low-intensity antennae for the UHF band passive RFID system. This new system cannot radiate an electrical field strong enough to interfere with medical equipment and should not pose a problem to any electronic equipment in the operating room. From our experimental results using 50 surgical instruments, all the instruments were identified in less than one second with this new RFID system, even when the instruments were covered with water residue. These results are very promising and indicate that the proposed RFID system will be an improvement to the surgical instrument management systems currently being used. This new system will also undoubtedly reduce the workload of surgical nurses, while reducing human error in the operating room.
KW - Identification at one time
KW - Low intensity system
KW - Surgical instruments
KW - UHF band RFID
KW - Workload reduction
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-9038-7_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-9038-7_8
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85048219734
SN - 1680-0737
VL - 68
SP - 39
EP - 43
JO - IFMBE Proceedings
JF - IFMBE Proceedings
IS - 2
T2 - World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, WC 2018
Y2 - 3 June 2018 through 8 June 2018
ER -