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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2004
Applicant:
Gian Franco Bernabei, Florence, IT;
Inventor:
Gian Franco Bernabei, Florence, IT;
Assignee:
Mattioli Engineering Ltd, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/30 (2006.01); A61N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transdermal drug delivery to be provided to a patient's skin, includes performing a dermabrasion treatment of the patient's skin so as to lower a skin impedance to below a first value. It also includes providing at least one burst of electrical pulses to the patient's skin that has been dermabrasion treated, wherein each pulses in the at least one burst of electrical pulses is stabilized with respect to a current amount.