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Abstract

A device for pain control or other medical treatments of a patient. The device includes an implantable unit for implantation under the skin of a patient. The implantable unit includes a drug chamber containing a fluid drug, a tube for delivering the fluid drug to a location in the patient's body, an electronic pump for pumping the drug through the tube to the location, a programmable processor for controlling the pump, and an electronic receiver for receiving control signals from outside the patient's body and delivering the control signals to the processor. The device also includes a controller located outside the patient's body for transmitting control signals to said receiver. In preferred embodiments the implantable device also comprises an electrical pulse generator and at least one electrode implanted at a location in said patient's body and connected to said pulse generator wherein said processor is programmed to control said pulse generator to deliver electrical pulsed to said electrode. In a preferred embodiment for the control of pain, the implantable chamber contains a refillable pain-relieving drug that is placed inside the chamber.

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