Sengstaken-Blakemore tube

noun

A medical device inserted through the nose or mouth and used occasionally in the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to esophageal varices.

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Meanings

nounSengstaken-Blakemore tube (plural Sengstaken-Blakemore tubes)

plural Sengstaken-Blakemore tubes

  1. medicineA medical device inserted through the nose or mouth and used occasionally in the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to esophageal varices.

    Sengstaaken-Blakemore tube (Surg Gynecol Obstet 1976;142:529) with accessory NG tube until endoscopy available if pt hemorrhaging—applying external traction not necessary (GE 1978;75:566); not a substitute nor should it delay endoscopy (Surg Gynecol Obstet 1988;167:331).

    2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Varices”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 103

Origin

Named after American neurosurgeon Robert William Sengstaken Sr. (1923–1978) and American vascular surgeon Arthur Blakemore (1897–1970).

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