The Val Med Nurse's Assistant is intended to be used to turn on and off and adjust certain settings of endoscopic and surgical cameras, surgical lamps, and operating room ("O.R.") lights, and to operate VCRs, monitors, video printers, radios, and CD players.
Device Story
Nurse's Assistant O.R. Control System; computer-based controller with monitor and touch screen interface. Used in operating rooms by nursing staff to centralize control of surgical equipment. Inputs: user touch commands. Outputs: control signals to connected devices including surgical/endoscopic cameras, surgical/room lights (via electrical dimmer switches), VCRs, monitors, video printers, radios, and CD players. System facilitates centralized management of O.R. environment and surgical visualization equipment; improves workflow efficiency for surgical teams. Device operates as a hub for peripheral O.R. hardware.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. The device meets EN 60601-1 (Programmable Electrical Medical Systems) and UL 2601-1 (Medical Electrical Equipment) safety standards. Software meets ANSI standard 1375-221.
Technological Characteristics
Computer-based control unit with touch screen interface. Controls electrical dimmer switches for surgical lighting. Connectivity includes integration with surgical cameras, monitors, and media players. Complies with EN 60601-1 and UL 2601-1 safety standards. Software developed to ANSI 1375-221.
Indications for Use
Indicated for use in general, cardiovascular, ENT, gastroenterology, urology, plastic, obstetrics, gynecology, and orthopedic surgery, and general thorascoscopy, general cardiothoracic surgery, general laparoscopy, nasopharyngoscopy, ear endoscopy, and sinuscopy. Applicable to procedures including laparoscopic cholecystectomy, hernia repair, appendectomy, pelvic lymph node dissection, hysterectomy, spinal fusion, decompression fixation, wedge resection, lung/pleural biopsy, dorsal sympathectomy, pleurodesis, coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiac chamber examination, and arthroscopic meniscus/ACL repair.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
An endoscope and accessories is a device used to provide access, illumination, and allow observation or manipulation of body cavities, hollow organs, and canals. The device consists of various rigid or flexible instruments that are inserted into body spaces and may include an optical system for conveying an image to the user's eye and their accessories may assist in gaining access or increase the versatility and augment the capabilities of the devices. Examples of devices that are within this generic type of device include cleaning accessories for endoscopes, photographic accessories for endoscopes, nonpowered anoscopes, binolcular attachments for endoscopes, pocket battery boxes, flexible or rigid choledochoscopes, colonoscopes, diagnostic cystoscopes, cystourethroscopes, enteroscopes, esophagogastroduodenoscopes, rigid esophagoscopes, fiberoptic illuminators for endoscopes, incandescent endoscope lamps, biliary pancreatoscopes, proctoscopes, resectoscopes, nephroscopes, sigmoidoscopes, ureteroscopes, urethroscopes, endomagnetic retrievers, cytology brushes for endoscopes, and lubricating jelly for transurethral surgical instruments. This section does not apply to endoscopes that have specialized uses in other medical specialty areas and that are covered by classification regulations in other parts of the device classification regulations.
Special Controls
*Classification* —(1)*Class II (special controls).* The device, when it is an endoscope disinfectant basin, which consists solely of a container that holds disinfectant and endoscopes and accessories; an endoscopic magnetic retriever intended for single use; sterile scissors for cystoscope intended for single use; a disposable, non-powered endoscopic grasping/cutting instrument intended for single use; a diagnostic incandescent light source; a fiberoptic photographic light source; a routine fiberoptic light source; an endoscopic sponge carrier; a xenon arc endoscope light source; an endoscope transformer; an LED light source; or a gastroenterology-urology endoscopic guidewire, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 876.9.(2) Class I for the photographic accessories for endoscope, miscellaneous bulb adapter for endoscope, binocular attachment for endoscope, eyepiece attachment for prescription lens, teaching attachment, inflation bulb, measuring device for panendoscope, photographic equipment for physiologic function monitor, special lens instrument for endoscope, smoke removal tube, rechargeable battery box, pocket battery box, bite block for endoscope, and cleaning brush for endoscope. The devices subject to this paragraph (b)(2) are exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807of this chapter, subject to the limitations in § 876.9.
Predicate Devices
Computer Motion's Hermes Operating Room Control Center
Olympus EndoAlpha
Karl Storz KSEA SCB-RUI
Hill-Rom, Inc.'s BrightStar®
American Sterilizer Co.'s Quantum®, SQ24
Getinge/Castle, Inc. OptiView®, 500 series
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