APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61N1/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment, namely to gastroenterostimulators for the early postoperative recovery of the gastrointestinal motor functions. An apparatus for electrical stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract comprises a step-down transformer with an electrical isolation of primary and secondary windings; a power indicator; an attenuator having three stimulation current control steps; a stimulation current indicator; a stimulation rhythm indicator; a switching unit supplying an electrical stimulating pulse into the oral cavity during chewing. A gastrointestinal motor function stimulation unit represents a rubber brick made from toxically safe chewable rubber. The rubber brick comprises paralleled hermetic micro-switches supplied from an output of the attenuator. On the periphery of the rubber brick, there are mounted silver terminals supplying electrical stimulating pulses onto a bioobject. Every time the gums press the rubber brick when chewing the micro-switches are closed and thereby supply power onto the external terminals arranged on the periphery of the rubber brick and electrically stimulate the patient's oral cavity in time with the chewing reflex rhythm.

EFFECT: providing the early postoperative motor functional recovery of the gastrointestinal tract.

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