Intrathecal Drug Delivery System

Introduction
A targeted drug delivery system delivers pain medication directly to the fluid around the intrathecal space. The system includes a drug pump that is connected to a thin, flexible tube called a catheter

Purpose of intrathecal drug delivery system is to administer drug (esp opioids, baclofen) in spinal fluid for the treatment of chronic severe pain and spasticity.

Currently, FDA-approved medications for the continuous intrathecal delivery are principally morphine, clonidine, baclofen, and ziconotide.

Indication

• Cancer pain
• Postlaminectomy syndrome
• Adhesive spinal arachnoiditis
• Brachial and lumbosacral
• plexitis
• Complex regional pain
• syndrome
• Spinal cord pain
• Post herpetic neuralgia
• Phantom limb pain
• Painful peripheral neuropathy
• Poststroke pain
• Intractable angina
• Chronic vascular disease