Self-contained implantable device and its use for administering active substances in the human body

Abstract

Abstract The invention relates to medical devices. It relates to a self-contained implantable device, characterised in that it comprises a manual control device 5 made of a medical grade silicone elastomer, comprising two domes 6, 7 which are substantially hemispherical, depressable, attached to a base 8 and defining a downstream chamber and an upstream chamber, these chambers communicating with each other via a passage 11 provided between the two domes and at least the downstream chamber being provided with an orifice 12; and a flexible catheter 1, made of a medical grade silicone elastomer, comprising at least one perforation 2 at its distal end, connected or connectable to the said orifice of the downstream chamber. Use in particular for adminstering opiate derivatives.

Inventors

• 👤 Marcel Robert Guignot

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