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A Sengstaken–Blakemore tube is a medical device inserted through the nose or mouth and used occasionally in the management of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to esophageal varices (distended and fragile veins in the esophageal wall, usually a result of cirrhosis).
Sengstaken–Blakemore tube, with three lumens (two balloons and a gastric aspiration port). Pressure can be applied to gastric and esophageal varices by balloon inflation and traction. [1] Linton tube, with a large gastric balloon, and gastric and esophageal aspirates
Originally called "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works" the company changed its name to the "National Pressure Cooker Company" in 1929 and then National Presto Industries, Inc. 1953. [3] The company originally produced pressure canners for commercial, and later home, use. Beginning in 1939, the company introduced small home-use cooking appliances.
A stovetop pressure cooker. A pressure cooker is a sealed vessel for cooking food with the use of high pressure steam and water or a water-based liquid, a process called pressure cooking. The high pressure limits boiling and creates higher temperatures not possible at lower pressures, allowing food to be cooked faster than at normal pressure.
Airtight vessels to apply pressure as well as heat are called autoclaves. In the food industry, pressure cookers are often referred to as "retorts", meaning "canning retorts" for sterilization under high temperature (116–130 °C). Retort in use
A. F. Blakemore, British food retail, wholesale and distribution company usually known as Blakemore G. Blakemore Evans (1912–2005), American scholar of Elizabethan literature Sengstaken–Blakemore tube , used in the management of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage
There are three major classes of dilators: [citation needed] Mercury or tungsten-weighted bougies have blindly inserted bougies placed into the esophagus by the treating physician.
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