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US 2021/0330927 A1Published application
Method of performing cryoneurolysis
AssigneeBlack Cat Medical LLC
InventorMichael F. Guzman
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Abstract
Provided are methods for anesthetizing a human patient undergoing surgery, and/or pain block procedures. In some forms, the methods include inserting at least one cryo-needle into a target region of the patient, the target region including a site superficial to a target intercostal nerve and cooling the cryo-needle to inhibit the target intercostal nerve.
Claims16
A method for anesthetizing a human patient undergoing surgery, and/or pain block procedures, the method comprising:
- inserting at least one cryo-needle into a target region of the patient, the target region including a site superficial to a target intercostal nerve, the cryo-needle having a distal end configured to cool surrounding patient tissue;
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- cooling the distal end of the cryo-needle to cause cooling of surrounding patient tissue thus inhibiting one or more intercostal nerves in the surrounding patient tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.