Patent ID: 10265481

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for injecting supportive and therapeutic agents into bone marrow. During conventional chemotherapy for leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and other bone related diseases, chemotherapeutic agents are typically injected intravenously. Intravenous injection, however, as a method of chemotherapy, has a number of potential disadvantages. By injecting therapeutic agents directly into the bone marrow using the present method and apparatus, these disadvantages can be avoided. A stronger needle with a shorter and sharper tip, when compared to a conventional intravenous or sternal puncture needle, designed to optimally administer therapeutic agents into bone marrow without causing injury is disclosed. The method includes injecting therapeutic agents into large reservoirs of bone marrow in accessible areas such as ilium and sternum is most likely to have a significant effect in treating bone marrow diseases. The needle may have side holes for wider and more even distribution of therapeutic agents throughout the marrow.