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.

Oesophageal varices commonly develop in the setting of portal hypertension. A Sengstaken-Blakemore (SB) tube is sometimes emergently required to control oesophageal bleeding.1,2 The normal portal ...

Catheters are semi-rigid but flexible tubes. They drain the bladder but block the urethra. The challenge is to produce a catheter that matches as closely as possible to the normal physiological and ...