Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical therapeutic systems
Patent
1993-07-15
1995-10-17
Kamm, William E.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical therapeutic systems
607 52, A61N 118
Patent
active
054586275
ABSTRACT:
Invented are methods and an apparatus for faradic stimulation of osteogenesis by control of electrochemical reactions through maintenance of a stimulus between a cathode and anode yielding only beneficial electrochemical reactions at the cathode, the site of desired osteogenesis, while preventing any detrimental reaction at the same. Said methods and apparatus maintain a stimulus yielding the maximum acceptable level of oxygen consumption and pH elevation at the cathode, either with or without the formation of hydrogen peroxide as only an intermediate chemical species, while preventing the initiation of hydrogen gas evolution at the same such that the stimulus results in depression of oxygen tension plus elevation of pH, environmental effects that favor osteogenesis, and prevents a reaction resulting in elevation of pH plus hydrogen gas evolution, the latter effect being detrimental to the same.
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Baranowski, Jr. Thomas J.
Black Jonathan
Electro-Biology, Inc.
Getzow Scott M.
Kamm William E.
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