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 ...
Experience with the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital suggested that these complications are more frequent, more varied and more serious than generally recognized. A ...
The New England Journal of Medicine: Modification of the Sengstaken–Blakemore Balloon Tube
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 ...
On Wednesday, the West Virginia University Athletics Department announced former women’s basketball coach Kittie Blakemore will have a street on the Evansdale campus named in her honor when the ...