Patent ID: 11864773
Assignee: STEVE EUGENE EVERETT
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 1:
2. A method for mitigating peripheral nerve neuropathy associated with chemotherapy treatment, comprising:
exerting a compressive pressure on a body part of a patient positioned within an interior space of a compression exertion device during administration of at least a portion of a prescribed amount of delivery of a chemotherapeutic agent to the patient, wherein the compressive pressure is exerted for causing at least one of a magnitude of the compressive pressure and a duration of time for said compressive pressure being exerted to at least one of occlude blood flow into dermis tissue of the body part and reduce blood flow into dermis tissue of the body part, wherein exerting the compressive pressure on the body part includes delivering a compression-inducing medium into at least one of the interior space of the compression exertion device and an expansion cavity of the compression exertion device having a wall at least partially defining the interior space, wherein delivering the compression-inducing medium includes delivering the compression-inducing medium into the interior space of the compression exertion device, wherein the compression-inducing medium is an oxygen-carrying medium capable of diffusing oxygen into at least one of the epidermis tissue and dermis tissue of the body part, and wherein exerting the compressive pressure on the body part includes:
maintaining a current volume of the oxygen-carrying medium under pressure within the interior space of the compression exertion device for at least one of a first designated period of time and until a level of oxygen in the oxygen-carrying medium decreases below a prescribed threshold level;
removing at least a portion of the current volume of oxygen-carrying medium during said administering of the chemotherapeutic agent;
delivering a replacement volume of oxygen-carrying medium into the interior space of the compression exertion device after removing the at least a portion of the current volume of oxygen-carrying medium to create a new volume of the oxygen-carrying medium within the interior space of the compression exertion device; and
pressurizing the new volume of oxygen-carrying medium to at least one of occlude blood flow into dermis tissue of the body part and reduce blood flow into dermis tissue of the body part.