US Patent:
20030163181, Aug 28, 2003
Inventors:
Glenn Frazer - Wynnewood PA, US
David Hesson - Malvern PA, US
Timothy Pelura - Malvern PA, US
James Barnitz - Schwenksville PA, US
Assignee:
Neuron Therapeutics, Inc. - Malvern PA
International Classification:
A61F007/00
Abstract:
Provided, among other things, is a method of treating, in an animal, an injury that is stroke, traumatic brain injury including traumatic surgical brain injury, brain hemorrhage other than stroke, spinal cord traumatic injury including spinal cord surgical trauma, infection, ischemia caused by surgical intervention, CNS injury caused by cardiac arrest, encephalitis or encephalomyelitis not due to infection, comprising: (a) creating a flow pathway, with an instillation catheter and an effluent catheter, that provides liquid flow in the vicinity of the injury; (b) instilling into the flow pathway an cerebrospinal perfusion fluid having a temperature from (i) 4 C. as a lower temperature to (ii) 4 C. below normal temperature of the animal; and (c) maintaining perfusion through the flow pathway for at least 12 hours of the cerebrospinal perfusion fluid having a temperature, at the point of instillation, from (i) 4 C. as a lower temperature to (ii) 4 C. below normal temperature of the animal.
