Vibratory Cough Suppression

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-01-12
JAMES MADISON INNOVATIONS
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The patent is about a non-invasive device that can be used to suppress chronic cough, which is a disorder that affects a person's quality of life. The device uses vibration to interfere with the sensory receptors in the trachea and subglottal region that trigger coughing. The device can be placed on the neck and is activated by the patient to suppress coughing. The technical effect of this patent is to provide a non-invasive and effective treatment for chronic cough that is currently not effectively treated with medication.

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This disorder may adversely affect the quality of life of 5-33% of the population.
Currently medications such as dextromethorphan or opiates are used to treat chronic cough but because of sedation and addiction side effects these are limited in dosage and duration of usage.
Otherwise, the patient may try to consciously suppress their coughing which is difficult to do.
These patients are annoying to others and also have sleeping difficulties because of coughing waking them up at night.

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[0010]Embodiments of the present invention may be employed as a treatment for chronic cough. Chronic cough is a disorder of uncontrolled coughing that may persist for 8 weeks or more. This disorder may adversely affect the quality of life of 5-33% of the population. When no contributing underlying disorder has been identified the disorder may be considered a hypersensivity to sensory triggers resulting in uncontrolled cough. Worldwide studies of patients have demonstrated that such patients often are female and have heightened cough reflex sensitivity. Such patients may have a central nervous system hyper-reactivity of the cough system at multiple levels; including the cough reflex in the brain stem, and at the cortical levels involving sensing the urge to cough and cortical modulation of cough generation. Treatment usually involves pharmacology and may be only partially effective and limited due to significant dose-limiting side effects such as sedation, and addiction.

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An apparatus comprises a vibrational transducer, a placement band, a driver module and a control module. The placement band is configured to hold the vibrational transducer adjacent to the skin surface overlying the cricoid cartilage and trachea region of a patient's neck. The driver module is configured to apply a drive signal to the vibrational transducer. The control module is configured to receive at least one input configured to provide vibrational operating information and control the driver module to cause the vibrational transducer to apply a vibratory stimulation in an amount determined, at least in part, by the vibrational operating information.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 190,157, filed Jul. 8 / 2015, entitled “Vibratory Cough Suppression,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Chronic cough is a disorder of uncontrolled coughing that may persist for 8 weeks or more. This disorder may adversely affect the quality of life of 5-33% of the population. Currently medications such as dextromethorphan or opiates are used to treat chronic cough but because of sedation and addiction side effects these are limited in dosage and duration of usage. Otherwise, the patient may try to consciously suppress their coughing which is difficult to do. These patients are annoying to others and also have sleeping difficulties because of coughing waking them up at night. What is needed is a non-invasive device to suppress a chronic cough.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS[0003]Example F...

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IPC IPC(8): A61H23/00A61H23/02
CPCA61H23/008A61H23/0245A61H2205/04A61H2201/5071A61H2230/405A61H23/02A61H23/0236A61H23/0254A61H2201/5012A61H2201/5015A61H2201/5058A61H2201/5076G09B19/04H04W4/80
Inventor LUDLOW, CHRISTY LESLIE
Owner JAMES MADISON INNOVATIONS
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