摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide improved feeding tube devices that easily enter into and advance through a patient's duodenum.SOLUTION: Described herein are a feeding tube 10 with an inflatable balloon component 282, a kit containing the feeding tube, and a method for intubating a patient to deliver the feeding tube to a desired location for delivering nutrients and/or medications to the patient with a removable stylet 30 inserted into a channel of a catheter 20. |