Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1993-12-13
1994-12-06
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
A61N 136
Patent
active
053706706
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for inducing micturition in patients with areflexic bladders or an otherwise diminished capacity to intentionally micturate are disclosed. The method disclosed comprises the steps of transecting a patient's rectus abdominis muscle between the xiphoid and umbilicus, preserving the patient's inferior epigastric artery and 2 to 4 innervating intercostal nerves and thereby creating a muscle flap attached to the symphysis pubis; wrapping the muscle flap around the patient's bladder and suturing it to itself to create a muscle bag around the bladder; attaching to the muscle bag and/or at least one of the innervating intercostal nerves, at least one electrical lead which is attached to an actuatable signal generator that comprises one or more switches and a power source; and actuating the switch of the actuatable signal generator in order to deliver a series of stimulus pulses from the signal generator to the muscle bag which are sufficient to cause the muscle bag to contract.
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Getzow Scott M.
Kamm William E.
Thomas Jefferson University
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