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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2001
Daniel P. Wermeling, Lexington, KY (US);
Ryan Vallance, Lexington, KY (US);
Aravind Balasubramaniam, Lexington, KY (US);
Bruce Lanier Walcott, Lexington, KY (US);
John Alan Main, Lexington, KY (US);
James E. Lumpp, Jr., Lexington, KY (US);
Daniel P. Wermeling, Lexington, KY (US);
Ryan Vallance, Lexington, KY (US);
Aravind Balasubramaniam, Lexington, KY (US);
Bruce Lanier Walcott, Lexington, KY (US);
John Alan Main, Lexington, KY (US);
James E. Lumpp, Jr., Lexington, KY (US);
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for the self-administration of a plurality of doses of an intranasal liquid pharmaceutical composition, including opioid analgesics, that includes a drug delivery device containing a plurality of sealed vials, each vial containing a predetermined volume of the pharmaceutical composition, a pump assembly for conveying the liquid pharmaceutical composition from the interior of the vial and discharging it as a nasal spray in response to manual activation by the patient, and programmable means for sequentially advancing a vial to the ready position after passage of a prescribed time interval following the last activation of the delivery device.