A Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is a tube used in emergency medicine to stop bleeding in your stomach or esophagus. The technique used to place the tube is called balloon tamponade. The ...

THE Sengstaken–Blakemore 1 balloon tube has been modified by the attachment of a standard plastic nasogastric tube. The tip of the plastic tube is secured at a point just above the proximal end of the ...

“The Sengstaken tube was removed from the esophagus today at noon, and . . . there is no evidence of recurrent bleeding.” The surgical jargon in the report on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, by ...

The SB tube has three ports at one end, each with a different function: esophageal balloon port, which inflates a small balloon in the esophagus gastric aspiration port, which removes fluid and air ...