Device and means to ameliorate discomfort and pain during breast cancer biopsies and similar procedures
OwnerHeather Marisa Richardson, Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiroinventors
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Abstract
A device and means to decrease the pain associated with cancer biopsies procedures The device uses anesthetic injections and electrical currents of both positive or negative polarity, or alternating current. The device can be incorporated into existing biopsiy devices. Application on breast cancer biopsies and other types of biopsies.
Claims20
An electrical stimulating device composed of:
- a minimum of one type_1 electrode supported by a first supporting device formed as a rigid penetrating device that is inserted in an animal,
- whereas the type_1 electrodes are adapted to apply electrical stimulating current to the animal,
- wherein the type_1 electrode that is supported by the first supporting device formed as the rigid penetrating device that is capable of being inserted into at least part of a volume inside the animal or inside an organ of the animal, is adapted to inject an electric current in its surroundings,
- wherein the first supporting device formed as the rigid penetrating device is adapted to be inserted into at least part of the volume inside the animal or inside an organ of the animal,
- wherein the first supporting device formed as the rigid penetrating device is a pain-inflicting device, which device causes pain on the animal, the pain-inflicting device being a minimum of one element belonging to at least one of the four sets:
- 1. a needle Nd used to inject anesthetics in an organ or in a flesh or in a muscle or in a part of the animal, prior to a medical procedure,
- 2. a device adapted to extract tissue samples from a volume inside the animal for later biopsy,
- 3. a needle used to suture the orifice made on the organ or in the flesh or in the muscle or in the part of the animal, by the tissue sample extractor,
- 4. a needle Nd attached to the device adapted to extract tissue samples from a volume inside the organ or the flesh or the muscle or the part of the animal, for later biopsy.
The electrical stimulating device of claim of 1 where the needle Nd is retractable.
The electrical stimulating device of claim of 1 where the needle Nd is fixed.
A method of applying electrical stimulation to tissues of an animal which consists of a first device and a second device, wherein,
- the first device is a rigid penetrating device adapted at being inserted in the animal, or in a cavity of the animal, or in a tissue of the animal, or in a part of the animal,
- the second device is a malleable sheet-like structure adapted to conform to a full external surface of the animal or to part of the external surface of the animal, or to a full internal surface of the animal, or to part of the internal surface of the animal,
- where the first device is capable of causing pain on the animal,
- where the first device is adapted of supporting a minimum of one type_1 electrode or a minimum of one type_2 or type_3 electrode,
- where the second device is adapted of supporting a minimum of one type_1 electrode or a minimum of one type_2 or type_3 electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.