MYOperator MK 1.0 [wireless electro-cautery tool]

The flawless care and attention that a surgeon needs to take while in an operating room is essential to the successful completion of a patient's surgery. Surgeries often require electro-biomedical devices which include hand tools the surgeon controls. The controlling of some of these tools is currently achieved through the use of a wired pedal that is located underneath the operating table. The foot controlled wired pedals are often considered to be tripping hazards and inconvenient, making them non-ideal hardware to have in the operating room. Surgical Electronic Solutions ventures to create a better foot pedal, by removing the pedal all together. It will be a wireless, wearable device, the MYOperator MK 1.0.The current wired solution for tool power control is what our product will rival, as well as wireless foot pedal devices. The main approach to creating a functioning medical device that would be appropriate was to use electromyography (EMG) sensing to eliminate the foot pedal and Bluetooth as a way to keep the system wireless. EMG sensing uses the electric potential from one's muscle contraction to produce a desired result. Our approach is to take the data collected from the surgeon's calf muscle. The foot gesture the surgeon will do to create a desired electric potential will be something they already know because of the existing use of a pedal, therefore the transition to our product will not be difficult.