Patent ID: 7517328
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: A61B,A61H,A61P

Abstract:
1. An emergency method of using a percussion device operable to emit non-invasive localized mechanical percussion at a frequency in the infrasonic to sonic range for enhancing intravenously administered thrombolytic drug action in clearance of an acute thrombotic arterial obstruction within a patient, comprising the steps of: a) applying non-invasive localized low frequency mechanical percussion at a frequency between 1 Hz-1000 Hz and a stroke length between 0.1-10 mm from said percussion device upon a targeted external body surface deemed proximate said acute thrombotic arterial obstruction, and b) intravenously administering a thrombolytic drug to said patient, prior to completion of step whereby said percussion device is placed in direct mechanical contact with said targeted external body surface, and whereby said non-invasive localized low frequency mechanical percussion concurrently accelerates the action of said intravenously administered thrombolytic drug in the emergency clearance of said acute thrombotic arterial obstruction.