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  • Vascular Surgery: Principles and Practice
    … and esophageal balloons as well as a gastric aspiration channel was later modified by adding an esophageal tube for continuous aspiration of secretions to prevent aspiration pneumonia.[71] Endotracheal intubation should precede placement of the Sengstaken- Blakemore tube to protect the airway … … pulled with the tube taped to a fixation device such as a football helmet via a weight …
  • Nonsurgical management of emergency hemorrhage from esophageal varices
    The straps on the helmet are adjusted to ensure a snug fit. All patients in whom the Sengstaken- Blakemore tube is used should be intubated with an endotracheal tube to prevent as- piration.
  • Book reviews
    "Once the gastric balloon is inflated, it is taped to the faceguard of a football helmet ." This advice on the management'of a Sengstahen- Blakemore tube comes from the University of California, Los Angel0s, School of Medicine.
  • Practical Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Disease Management
    Trac- tion is applied (3 lb), and the balloon is typically retained in its position by use of a football helmet , attaching the tube to the face guard. Use of the esophageal balloon on the Sengstaken– Blakemore tube significantly increases the risk of esophageal rupture …
  • Chronic Liver Failure
    The early consideration of intubation and airway protection, which has been discussed in detail earlier, can also improve tolerance of the Sengstaken Blakemore tube (SBT). … gastric balloon and the position maintained by taping to the face or a helmet to ensure constant …
  • Non-Pulmonary Complications of Critical Care
    balloon (i.e., Sengstaken– Blakemore and Minnesota tubes ). The tube is then tethered to a hel- met or weighted with a pulley system to maintain tension on the system, keeping the gastric balloon pulled up against the lower esophageal sphincter.
  • Sengstaken-Blakemore Tube Placement
    Illustration of placement of Sengstaken- Blakemore tube . Alternatively, tubes can be secured with tape to the mouth guard of a football helmet .
  • Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine
    Blakemore Tube … be secured to the side of the face, preferably by tape [4, 5] or onto a helmet .
  • Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
    Heliox 266 Helmet 316 Hemadsorption 785 Hematocrit 657, 691, 693 Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) 474 Hemodialysis … … Leukotrienes 215, 246 Levetiracetam 827 Levosimendan 96, 184, 419 Lidocaine 211 Linton-Nachlas tubes 746 Lipopolysaccharide (LPS … … 33, 818, 822 Selective oral decontamination 345 Selenium 454 Selenoprotein P 461 Sengstaken- Blakemore tube 746 Sepsis …
  • Intensive Care Medicine
    Heliox 266 Helmet 316 Hemadsorption 785 Hematocrit 657, 691, 693 Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-l) 474 Hemodialysis … … Leukotrienes 215, 246 Levetiracetam 827 Levosimendan 96, 184,419 Lidocaine 211 Linton-Nachlas tubes 746 Lipopolysaccharide (LPS … … 33, 818, 822 Selective oral decontamination 345 Selenium 454 Selenoprotein P 461 Sengstaken- Blakemore tube 746 Sepsis …