Apparatus for displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy
US12011178B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 11, 2023 |
| Grant date | Jun 18, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 11, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61H2205/106
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.
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