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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2014
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Amira Wohabrebbi, Memphis, TN (US);
William F. McKay, Memphis, TN (US);
Vanja Margareta King, Memphis, TN (US);
Danielle L. Biggs, Collierville, TN (US);
Katara Shaw, Birmingham, AL (US);
Christopher Hobot, Tonka Bay, MN (US);
Phillip Edward McDonald, Plymouth, MN (US);
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an implantable drug depot useful for reducing, preventing or treating post-operative pain in a patient in need of such treatment, the implantable drug depot comprising a polymer and a therapeutically effective amount of a local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the drug depot is implantable at a site beneath the skin to reduce, prevent or treat post-operative pain, and the drug depot is capable of releasing (i) a bolus dose of the local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at a site beneath the skin and (ii) a sustained release dose of an effective amount of the local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof over a period of at least 4 days.