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US 5,078,680 AGranted
Automatic injector for emergency treatment
AssigneeSurvival Technology, Inc.
InventorStanley Sarnoff
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AssigneeSurvival Technology, Inc.
InventorStanley Sarnoff
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A method of treating a patient with liquid medicament under circumstances where intravenous injection is not practical but the fast response time of an intravenous injection is desirable, including the treatment of individuals undergoing heart attack symptoms with t-PA. The method comprises the steps of injecting the liquid medicament t-PA preferably with a blood absorption enhancing agent such as hydroxylamine hydrochloride into the muscle tissue of the patient, applying to the patient which has received the injection repeated blood flow stimulating cycles, each of which includes a period of electrical stimulus during which the muscle tissue which has received the injection tenses followed by a period of no electrical stimulus during which the muscle tissue which received the injection is allowed to relax inducing enhanced blood flow within the muscle tissue, and continuing the application of the repeated blood flow stimulating cycles until the injected liquid medicament has been sufficiently absorbed into the enhanced blood flow to achieve a desired possible patient response of reperfusion and apparatus for carrying out the method.
A method for treatment of a coronary prone individual at a time during the early minutes or hours after the onset of heart attack symptoms comprising intramuscularly administering at that time to the individual a liquid medicament including an agent for preventing platelet aggregations in the blood when absorbed therein from the muscle, said agent being employed in an amount sufficient to prevent platelet aggregations and effect said treatment.
A method of treating a patient suffering from symptoms of a myocardial infarction which comprises the steps of administering to the patient simultaneously or substantially simultaneously a clot selective thrombolytic agent and a platelet aggregation preventing agent such that (1) sufficient thrombolytic agent enters the bloodstream to rapidly effect reperfusion in a coronary artery having a blood clot therein causing the symptoms and (2) sufficient platelet aggregation preventing agent enters the blood stream to prevent reclotting within the coronary artery.
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