Specific Treatment; Direct Current; A) Precautions Prior To Iontophoresis Treatment; B) Preparing The Patient And The Area To Be Treated By Iontophoresis - CefarCompex Physio 5 Bedienungsanleitung

IV Specific Treatment
ENG

1. Direct current

A. Precautions prior to Iontophoresis treatment
ATTENTION: Do not perform the treatment if the patient is suffering or has suffered
from asthma, hay fever, food allergy, eczema, allergy to penicillin or aspirin. Do not carry
out the treatment on allergic patients, whatever form their allergy may take: hay fever,
eczema, or food allergy. The more likely the medicinal product is to cause strong reactions
in an allergic subject (e.g. aspirin), the more vigilant one should be.
ATTENTION: Make sure that the medicine is not contraindicated. Iontophoresis treatment
must not be performed if the patient has a disease or is taking other treatments that are
listed among the contraindications for the ionized medicine.
ATTENTION: Stop the treatment immediately and do not repeat it with the same medicine
if a local allergic reaction is identified. Do not repeat Iontophoresis treatment if any local
allergic reaction, however mild, was observed during the last treatment.
ATTENTION: No Iontophoresis treatment near a metal implant. Electrodes for Iontophoresis
treatment must not be placed close to metallic bone or joint implants (prosthesis or bone
fixing).
B. Preparing the patient and the area to be treated by iontophoresis
1. Thoroughly clean the area of skin to be treated, then rinse and dry.
2. Correct cleaning of the skin is not enough. It must also be degreased with a fat
solvent (such as ether) applied to swabs.
ATTTENTION: Do not shave the area of skin onto which the electrodes are placed. Hair
does not interfere with Iontophoresis treatment. If treatment is done in an area where hair
is shaved, there is a risk of causing small skin wounds. These wounds form points of low
electrical resistance where the current will flow preferentially.
3. Place the patient in a relaxed position so that he moves as little as possible during
treatment.
C. Preparing the electrodes and solution of ionized medicine
1. Apply the solution of ionized medicine to a dry electrode previously rinsed
with distilled water.
2. Apply the ionized medicinal solution to the electrode of the same polarity. In this
way, the medicinal ions are repelled from that electrode and attracted to the other
with the opposite polarity.
3. In order to make the circuit conductive, the active electrode has been impregnated
with the solution of ionized medicine and the inactive electrode has to be soaked
with a conductive substance of the therapist's choice: a conducting gel, physiological
liquid, or simply tap water.
D. Attaching the electrodes
1. Place the active electrode on the area to be treated. If the area to be treated is
painful, find the chosen pain point by palpation and centre the active electrode on
that point.
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