Systems and devices that facilitate intranasal therapy for patients

Abstract

A system for facilitating endonasal treatment of a patient's sphenopalatine / pterygopalatine fossa is disclosed. As such, the present system is effective for the management of acute pain conditions and accurate enough to be operated by physician assistants, nurses, and other well-trained practitioners. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a sheath, a catheter sheath, a stop element and an engagement element. Engagement between the detent element and the engagement element prevents rotation of the sheath relative to the catheter sheath.

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technical field [0001] This topic relates to autonomic nerve blocks and pain nerve blocks, and more specifically to blocks of the sphenopalatine / pterygopalatine ganglion. In particular, the subject matter provides systems and devices for reducing, alleviating and ameliorating pain due to various indications. Background technique [0002] Autonomic pain is a type of nerve pain caused by abnormal functioning of the autonomic nervous system. With autonomic pain, abnormalities within a group of nerves called ganglia cause pain in an organ or body region. To treat autonomically mediated pain, physicians block ganglia by injecting and applying drugs to specific areas of the body. To treat acute pain therapeutically, physicians inject or apply a local anesthetic to the ganglion of neurons affected by the disease. This type of treatment may be called a nerve block. [0003] In 1908, Greenfield Sluder, M.D., published his article, "The role of the sphenopalatine ganglion in nasal...

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