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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Todd Wilcox, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
E Marlowe Goble, Logan, UT (US);
Alan Chervitz, Logan, UT (US);
MedicineLodge, Inc., Logan, UT (US);
Abstract
A surgical site chemical dispensing system for dispensing a liquid chemical agent, such as an antibiotic, anesthetic, growth factor, hormone, anti-neoplastic agent, or the like, directly onto a site of a surgical procedure. The system includes at least one bladder formed from a pair of thin sections of a flexible material to have an internal cavity that connects to an open tube wherethrough the liquid chemical agent is passed, under pressure, into the bladder. The liquid chemical agent passes, as a low volume flow, through at least one hole formed through a bladder section of material and onto the surgical procedure site. The invention includes a single or a pair of individual bladders that is or are each formed from a thin flexible biocompatible material, with each bladder for positioning in close proximity to a prepared bone surface with at least one and preferably a plurality of holes formed through a bladder section of material surface that is in engagement with the prepared bone surface to bleed a low volume flow of a chemical agent onto the bone surface.