METHOD OF ENHANCING NEEDLELESS TRANSDERMAL POWDERED DRUG DELIVERY

• Main Authors: KWON, SUNG-YUN, BURKOTH, TERRY, LEE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 31.10.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROSTHESES; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

A therapeutic agent is administered to a predetermined area of skin or mucosa of a vertebrate subject by: a) accelerating particle s into, across or both into and across the area of skin or mucosa, and (b) topically positioning a first transdermal drug delivery device or a first occlusive dressing over the area of skin or mucosa, wherein the particles or the first transdermal drug delivery device or the first occlusive dressing, or a combination thereof, comprise the therapeutic agent.