Method of using nebulized alcohol for analgesia
AssigneeBn Intellectual Properties, Inc.
InventorsDonald M. Pell, Frank Caiazzo
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Abstract
A method of regulating pain in a patient includes operations of measuring a patient pain level, determining a dose of ethanol which does not trigger alcohol intolerance or intoxication, delivering the dose of ethanol to the patient by inhalation from an active mesh nebulizer at a repeated interval, measuring the pain level of the patient at a monitoring interval, and determining, based on the patient pain level, whether to adjust the ethanol dose. The dose of ethanol is delivered in the form of particles of nebulized liquid having a diameter ranging from about 0.5 μm to about 5.0 μm, which are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream of a patient and delivered to the brain.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- measuring a patient pain level prior to delivering a dose of analgesic compound to the patient;
- determining a number of inhalation periods in which to deliver the dose of analgesic compound to the patient;
- delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient by inhalation by the patient from an active mesh nebulizer at a regular interval, wherein delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient is delayed by 1 to 3 seconds after the patient initiates inhalation;
- measuring the patient pain level after delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient;
- and
- determining whether to repeat delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient, wherein
- the dose of analgesic compound comprises a dose of ethanol,
- the dose of analgesic compound delivered by inhalation from the active mesh nebulizer further comprises particles having a diameter of not less than 0.5 μm and not greater than 5 μm, and wherein
- delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient begins to provide pain relief within about 10 seconds.
A method, comprising:
- measuring a patient pain level;
- determining a first dose of ethanol by scaling a cumulative dose of ethanol;
- delivering the first dose of ethanol to a patient by inhalation from an active mesh nebulizer at a repeated interval;
- evaluating the patient pain level after delivering the first dose of ethanol to the patient by inhalation from the active mesh nebulizer at a repeated interval;
- determining whether to replace the first dose of ethanol with a second dose of ethanol different from the first dose of ethanol;
- and
- delivering the second dose of ethanol to a patient by inhalation from the active mesh nebulizer at the repeated interval, wherein delivering a dose of ethanol to a patient by inhalation from an active mesh nebulizer further comprises delivering droplets of ethanol solution having a diameter of not less than 0.5 μm and not greater than 5 μm, wherein each of delivering the first dose of ethanol and delivering the second dose of ethanol begins to provide an analgesic effect within about 10 seconds from delivering the dose of ethanol.
A method of reducing patient pain, comprising:
- determining a degree of patient pain in a patient;
- delivering a dose of analgesic compound to the patient, wherein the analgesic compound further comprises ethanol, and wherein delivering the dose of analgesic compound further comprises delivering the ethanol to the patient from an active mesh nebulizer at a regular interval after determining the degree of patient pain in the patient, wherein delivering the dose of analgesic compound begins to provide an analgesic effect within about 10 seconds from delivering the dose of analgesic compound;
- measuring the degree of patient pain after delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient from the active mesh nebulizer;
- and
- determining whether to repeat delivering the dose of analgesic compound to the patient from the active mesh nebulizer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.