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Enteral feeding device

  • US 4,758,219 A
  • Filed: 05/17/1985
  • Issued: 07/19/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of placing an enteral feeding catheter in an abdominal puncture to enable feeding directly to the stomach, comprisingproviding a guidewire of length sufficient to extend from the outside, through the abdominal puncture, the stomach, the esophagus and out of the mouth, and providing an elongated catheter member comprising leading and trailing portions, said catheter member being open at both ends to enable passage over the guidewire, said leading portion being of length sufficient to extend along said guidewire from outside, through the mouth, the esophagus and stomach and through said abdominal puncture to the outside, said porton being shaped and being of stiffness sufficient to permit it to be advanced along said guidewire solely by pushing forces applied at said mouth until the leading end of said portion emerges on said guidewire from said abdominal puncture to be grasped, said trailing portion of said catheter member being adapted to form the feeding tube that is to remain in the patient, said trailing portion being adapted to be drawn along said guidewire by grasping and pulling the leading portion, until only the trailing end remains in the stomach, to serve as a conduit for enteral feeding,forming said abdominal puncture,inserting said guidewire to extend from outside said puncture, through the puncture, stomach, esophagus and mouth to the outside,pushing said catheter member down said guidewire from the mouth until it exits along said guidewire from said puncture,thereafter grasping and pulling on the portion of said catheter member that emerges from said puncture until said trailing portion of said catheter member extends from the stomach through said abdominal puncture, and securing said trailing portion to serve as said enteral feeding tube.

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