INTUBATION STUDIES OF THE HUMAN SMALL INTESTINE
- 4 January 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 106 (1) , 16-18
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1936.02770010018004
Abstract
During 1934 we1described a technic for the rapid intubation of the human small intestine. It involved the use of a double-lumened rubber tube of relatively small caliber, to the distal end of which was attached a collapsible rubber balloon that could be distended at will through one of the lumens. The balloon, when distended in the bowel, served the threefold purpose (a) of stimulating sufficiently active peristalsis to propel the apparatus throughout the whole small intestine in from three to four hours, (b) of forming an obstruction to the flow of intestinal contents so that they could easily be aspirated from above the balloon through the other lumen of the tube, and (c) of providing a means for securing kymographic records of pressure changes within the small bowel. With this method, studies on the chemical characteristics of the contents of the normal small intestine, by Karr and Abbott,Keywords
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