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US 12,667,524 B2Granted
Nasogastric tube
AssigneeEnvue Medical Holdings, Corp.
InventorsDoron Besser, Guy Ben Ezra
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Abstract
A method comprising a nasogastric tube comprising a feeding mechanism, a suction mechanism configured to sealingly draw an inner wall of an esophagus against said nasogastric tube, and a gastric decompression mechanism.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- introducing an enteral tube into an esophagus of a patient, the enteral tube comprising:
- (a) a main lumen having one or more proximal connectors configured to connect to a source of substances or pressure;
- (b) a feeding port at a distal end of the main lumen;
- (c) one or more vacuum lumens peripherally surrounding the main lumen;
- (d) one or more suction ports configured to sealingly draw an inner wall of the esophagus thereagainst, each of the one or more suction ports being associated with a different one of the one or more vacuum lumens;
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- (e) at least one gastric decompression port disposed distally to the one or more suction ports along a length of the enteral tube and proximally to the feeding port, wherein the at least one gastric decompression port is associated with one of the one or more vacuum lumens associated with one of the one or more suction ports;
- applying a vacuum to the one or more vacuum lumens so as to sealingly draw the inner wall of the esophagus against the one or more suction ports and to decompress gastric fluid via the at least one gastric decompression port while the inner wall of the esophagus is sealingly drawn against the one or more suction ports.
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