Regulated Gravity-Based Cerebral Spinal Fluid Drainage Device
AssigneeNeuroenterprises, LLC
InventorsSean Salehi, Mahmound Matthew Salehi, Jonathan Ferris
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Abstract
Portable external gravity-based devices and methods for regulating cerebral spinal fluid drainage from brain, tissue or organs of a patient, and methods for reducing secondary brain injury to a patient by externally regulating the amount of gravity-based cerebral spinal fluid drainage from brain or spine are provided by this invention.
Claims38
A device for regulating cerebral spinal fluid drainage amounts from brain, spine, tissue or organs of a patient comprising:
- a user interface module comprising logic, an input interface, a communication system to communicate a signal from a sensor mechanism of a fluid-handling module, a first component of a physical connection, and a first component of an electrical connection, and
- the fluid-handling module comprising a sensor mechanism, an energy source, a cerebral spinal fluid tubing pathway, a valve mechanism, a second component of the physical connection and a second component of the electrical connection, wherein the user interface module and the fluid-handling module are operatively connected through the first component and the second component of the electrical connection,
- wherein the device is portable external gravity-based device.
A fluid-handling module comprising a housing, a sensor mechanism, an energy source, a cerebral spinal fluid tubing pathway, a valve mechanism, and a component of an electrical connection, wherein the energy source is a battery, is rechargeable or is a capacitor, wherein the battery is selected from the group comprising an alkaline battery, a lithium battery, and a NiMH battery.
A user interface module, comprising a housing, logic, input interface, a communication system, and a component of an electrical connection.
A device for regulating cerebral spinal fluid drainage amounts from brain, spine, tissue or organs of a patient comprising a single module, further comprising a housing, logic, input interface, a sensor mechanism, a communication system to communicate a signal from the sensor mechanism, an energy source, a cerebral spinal fluid tubing pathway, and a valve mechanism, wherein the device is portable external gravity-based device.
The use of a device of the invention in a post neurosurgical or an ENT procedures wherein the post neurosurgical or the ENT procedure are triggered by the CSF encounter and wherein sealing of a dura mater at a surgical site via re-routing of the CSF from an alternate pathway in the form of an external ventricular drain or the lumbar drain is desired, wherein the dura mater is a sac which contains the brain, spinal cord and CSF.
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