Spencer Brown,Brock Liden,Tanya Rhodes,Joe Almasy,Steven V. Harrison,Douglas J. Morgan
申请号：
US16714288
公开号：
US20200188612A1
申请日:
2019.12.13
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2020
代理人:
摘要：
Systems and methods for reducing pathogens near an implant are discussed. In some cases, the methods include reducing contaminants in a portion of a patient that has an implant and that is disposed interior to a closed surface of skin of the patient. The method can further include placing a conduit in the closed surface of skin and flowing an antimicrobial fluid into that portion of the patient to contact the antimicrobial fluid with a surface of the implant and tissue adjacent to the implant. In some cases, the antimicrobial fluid is then removed from the portion of the patient having the implant. As part of this method, biofilm near the implant can be mechanically, ultrasonically, electrically, chemically, enzymatically, or otherwise disrupted. Other implementations are described.
