Patent ID: 6895271
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of treatment by electrokinetic self-administration of a medicament into a treatment site for an individual, comprising: providing a device shaped in part to conform to at least a portion of an individual's finger and having a self-contained power source, first and second electrodes, and a substrate in electrical contact with said first electrode along a first surface of said substrate and an exposed contact surface opposite said first surface; providing said substrate with one of an electrokinetically transportable medicament or a medicament with an electrically conductive carrier therefor; releasably retaining the divice on the individual's finger with the first electrode interposed between the individual's finger portion and the substrate; providing an electrical insulator between said first electrode and the individual's finger portion; while the device remains retained of the individual's finger, placing the contact surface of said substrate into contact with the individual's treatment site; contacting the individual's body with said second electrode at a location other than the treatment site; and causing electrical current to flow through said first electrode, the medicament or conductive carrier therefor, the treatment site, the individual's body, said second electrode and said power source to electrokinetically drive the medicament into the treatment site.