A new self-propelling nasoenteric feeding tube.
A new fine-bore nasoenteric feeding tube was tested in 19 post-operative patients. It is a silicone rubber tube, which at its distal end has 5 loops with a diameter of approximately 4 cm. The loops are easily straightened during insertion into the stomach, but ease transpyloric passage after removal of the guidewire. 4 h after insertion, 18 tubes had reached the duodenum or upper part of the jejunum. In only 1 patient was there regurgitation of the tube into the stomach after insertion.
Jeppsson
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Department of Surgery, Lund University S-221 85 Lund, Sweden.
Tranberg
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Bengmark
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