Medtronic Personal Therapy Manager
Filed in archive Investigational on November 9, 2005
The FDA has approved a portable PCA-like chronic pain device:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Medtronic Personal Therapy Manager (PTM), which allows chronic pain patients with the company's SynchroMed(R) II drug pumps to deliver supplemental doses of pain medication that have been pre-prescribed by a doctor. Previously, only a constant, pre-set dose was delivered via the pumps. The PTM is about the size of a cell phone, and used to manage all types of severe chronic pain. Patients use it by pressing a button, triggering the delivery of the physician-prescribed dose of liquid morphine after the device software verifies that the "lockout interval," or the safe time during which the patient cannot receive additional doses of medication, has elapsed.
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Tristan Phillips
(11/09/05 9:42am)
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Too bad we're still so uptight about chronic pain patients might actually ENJOY the narcotic they need that we need to put a timer on the device and potentially have them suffer in pain when they shouldn't.