DEVICE AND METHOD OF TREATING AND PREVENTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61N1/04 A61N1/20 A61N1/372 A61F2/28 A61B17/58 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to a device and method of treating bacterial diseases. The device comprises a trocar, a perforator, a pusher, a silver electrode, a temporary electrode, a needle made of a biocompatible material having a negative electric potential to silver, one or more second electrodes made of the same material as the needle, an external DC voltage, and a conductivity metre. The method using the device involves the stages of drilling a hole in an infected bone or within an infected area, implanting the small silver electrode therein, placing the temporary electrode in the hole above the silver electrode in close contact therewith, establishing an electrical connection of the temporary electrode to a first clamp of the conductivity metre, establishing an electrical connection of the needle to a second clamp of the conductivity metre, touching the skin surface with the needle in a point close to the hole and measuring the path conductivity from the silver electrode to the needle, restarting a touch pitch in various skin locations as long as the path having the highest electrical conductivity is found, and marking the corresponding needle location, disconnecting the conductivity metre from the temporary electrode and removing the conductivity metre and the needle, introducing the second electrode subcutaneously in the marked location, establishing an electrical connection of one clamp of the DC voltage to the temporary electrode, and its second clamp - to the second electrode, passing the current of less than 0.5 mA for 5-120 s between the silver electrode and the second electrode, disconnecting the second clamp of the DC voltage from the second electrode, removing the temporary electrode and the DC voltage.

EFFECT: using the invention provides a prolonged antibacterial effect which has a preventive effect and after completion of the therapeutic course of infection.

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