Patent ID: 6792306
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
An electrokinetic delivery system for personal use in self-administration of a medicament to a treatment site on an individual, comprising:a device for releasable securement to an individual's finger and shaped in part to conform to at least a portion of the individual's finger; a retainer for releasably securing the device to the individual's finger; a self-contained power source carried by said device; a first electrode carried by said device adjacent a distal end portion thereof and adjacent the tip of the individual's finger upon retention of the device on the individual's finger, said first electrode being in electrical contact with said power source; a second electrode carried by said device for electrical contact with a portion of the individual's body, said second electrode being in electrical contact with said power source whereby, upon application of said first electrode to a treatment site with the medicament interposed between the first electrode and the treatment site and completion of an electrical circuit through the first electrode, the medicament or conductive carrier therefor, the treatment site, the individual's body, said second electrode and said power source, said device causes an electrical current to flow for electrokinetically driving the medicament into the treatment site.