specialty of the ear
A patent for a catheter for injecting drugs through the Eustachian tube has been registered in the name of Dr. Saleh Saqr Al-Omari, a consultant otorhinolaryngologist, sent by the Air Force to King Saud University to obtain an accurate fellowship in the ear and its nerves at the King Abdullah Specialist Center for the ear of King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Riyadh. This invention is considered the first invention issued by the doctors of the King Abdullah Center for the ear, as there are many inventions registered in the name of the center’s doctors in the process of issuing final patent certificates.
The importance of this invention lies in providing a safer and more accurate native for treating some intractable ear diseases. Previously, patients were treated with a needle that penetrates the eardrum into the middle ear to inject the medicine and then it is absorbed through the inner ear. Permanent perforation of the eardrum. In addition, the dose given may leak out through the eustachian tube or through the perforation made with the needle. Therefore, the accuracy of the dose and the duration of its stay in the ear is not stable.
The invention is based on the delivery of the drug to the middle ear through the Eustachian tube, after suctioning the air from the middle ear to give space for the injected medicine, and upon completion of the injection process, the Eustachian tube is closed temporarily with a balloon that is removed after a period determined by the doctor, and all these steps take place in a single ion process only. For the Eustachian Channel. Although there were previous catheters for the Eustachian tube, this catheter was the first to treat diseases of the inner ear. The head of the King Abdullah Specialist Center for Ear, Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman Hajar stated that the center is keen to attract national competencies in this field and support them to reach the Kingdom to the ranks of developed countries and compete with them.
