Stylet device for guiding an enteral feeding tube

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A - Human Necessities

61

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A61J 15/00 (2006.01) A61M 25/01 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2212055

The present invention is an improved stylet for enteric or nasoenteric feeding tubes. In broadest terms, the present invention comprises: a stylet for a feeding tube, the stylet having: (a) a stylet hub having a bore therethrough and adapted to be attached to one end of the feeding tube, the bore having an inner surface; (b) a longitudinally extending reinforcement member adapted to extend through the feeding tube, the reinforcement member having a proximal end; and (c) a hollow member having an outer surface and having an aperture, the hollow member disposed in the bore so as to hold the inlet end of the reinforcement member between the outer surface and the inner surface through an interference fit.

Stylet amélioré destiné aux tubes d'alimentation entérale ou naso-entérale. En termes généraux, le système selon l'invention consiste en: un stylet destiné à un tube d'alimentatioon, ce stylet comportant: a) un embout de stylet percé d'un alésage traversant et conçu pour être fixé à une extrémité du tube d'alimentation, l'alésage comportant une surface interne; b) une pièce de renforcement longitudinale, conçue pour s'étendre dans le tube d'alimentation, cette pièce de renforcement ayant une extrémité proximale et c) une pièce creuse ayant une surface externe et une ouverture, cette pièce creuse étant disposée à l'intérieur de l'embout, de façon à maintenir l'extrémité d'entrée de la pièce de renforcement entre la surface externe et la surface interne, au moyen d'un ajustement par serrage.

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