Method of retaining a gastric tube
OwnerColin Antenbring, Ron Gorospeinventors
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Abstract
A method of intubating a patient includes inserting a tracheal tube into the patient, inserting a gastric tube into the patient, attaching a gastric tube retainer to the tracheal tube, and engaging the gastric tube in the gastric tube retainer to thereby secure the gastric tube in position relative to the tracheal tube. The gastric tube is engaged in the gastric tube retainer by spreading apart portions of the gastric tube retainer along a slit, and sliding the gastric tube into the gastric tube retainer along the slit to a gastric tube opening having a diameter corresponding to the outer diameter of the gastric tube, so that the gastric tube is securely retained in an uncompressed condition in the gastric tube opening.
Claims3
A method of intubating a patient, comprising the steps of:
- inserting a tracheal tube into a patient;
- inserting a gastric tube into the patient:
- attaching a gastric tube retainer to said tracheal tube;
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- engaging said gastric tube in said gastric tube retainer to thereby secure said gastric tube in position relative to said tracheal tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.