Acronyms
USM
What is the Universal Surgical Manipulator?
The surgeon can press these to activate energy, move the camera, and/or take a photo during the procedure.
What are the pedals?
This is the name for the "arms" on the PSC for the X/Xi and the dV5 (4th generation and 5th generation systems).
What are the Universal Surgical Manipulators (USMs)?
This component of the Vision Side Cart allows the surgical team to see what the surgeon sees inside the patient's body.
What is the touchscreen?
Customer reports that the USM moved on it's own, without being commanded by the surgeon.
What is the Patient Side Cart (PSC)?
MTMs
What are Master Tool Manipulators?
What are the ergonomic controls?
This is the name for the part of the PSC that allows a nurse to drive the cart to the patient's side and perform guided set-up.
What is the Helm?
This is the brand name of the integrated electrosurgical generator (IESU) that is built into the S/Si and X/Xi Vision Side Carts (3rd generation and 4th generation).
What is the ERBE?
The customer reports that they are unable to change the ergonomic settings, the arm rest is stuck in an uncomfortable position.
What is the Surgeon Side Console (SSC)?
HRSV
What is the High Resolution Stereo Viewer?
This is a learning tool that connects to the SSC for surgeons to practice their surgical techniques.
What is the Skills Simulator (the Simulator or the backpack)?
This is the component of the PSC that extends the USMs out over the operating table during set-up.
What is the boom?
This is the term for the system electronics located on the VSC.
What is the core?
What is the Patient Side Cart (PSC)?
EC
What is the Endoscope Controller?
When this component detects that the surgeon is not looking at the surgical field, the MTMs will no longer control the instruments.
What are the head sensors/ HRSV sensors?
This is the location on the USM where each instrument will attach/ engage.
What is the instrument carriage?
When the OR staff sees this type of system fault, they can clear the fault and resume the procedure by following instructions on the touchscreen.
What is a recoverable fault?
The customer reports that when they try to activate bipolar energy, there is no cautery. They have already attempted to change instruments, but the problem persists.
What is the Vision Side Cart (VSC)?
IESU
What is the Integrated Electrosurgical Unit (ERBE on the 3rd and 4th generation, E-200 on dV5)?
When a surgeon wants to take control of the instruments, they must put their head into the HRSV and perform this function in order to take the instruments into following mode.
What is match grips?
This component on the USM allows the patient side assist to undock the cannula at the end of a procedure.
What is the cannula lever?
These are the colors used to indicate monopolar energy cables/ monopolar energy ports vs. bipolar energy cables/ bipolar energy ports on the IESU.
What is green (monopolar) and blue (bipolar)?
Surgeon reports one eye is black. The endoscope has been replaced but there is no change. There are no error messages.
TRICK QUESTION - What is the HRSV or the Vision Cart (not enough information to know yet)?