CONTAINER IMPREGNATED WITH MEDICINE

• Main Authors: FULMER MARK THOMAS, ARMBRUSTER DAVID A, GRUSKIN ELLIOT A, FRIGG ROBERT, KERR SEAN HAMILTON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.08.2014
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; 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; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved sleeve impregnated with medicine.SOLUTION: The sleeve impregnated with medicine wraps a medical implant. The sleeve defines an inner cavity for receiving medical implant, and includes a body made of biocompatible material. The biocompatible material has bioresorbability. The body may include a plurality of openings such as holes and bores extending from the cavity through the body. The sleeve may further include a first end, a second end, and a resorbable sheet impregnated with medicine. The first end of the sleeve may be open for reception of a medical implant therethrough, and the second end may be closed. The implant is wrapped in the sleeve so as to be embedded in a patient. With passing of time, the medicine is dosed from the embedded sleeve to the tissues around the embedded portion in vivo.