An air-filled syringe (A) is used to inflate the balloon at the catheter tip (inset). An accessory infusion port (B) is present in most catheters and connects to a lumen 30 cm from the catheter ...

Once the needle tip is close to the parietal pleura, remove the stylet and connect a 10-ml syringe to the distal part of the needle. Continue introducing the needle while gently aspirating.

With the remaining 15 tubes, a 60-mL catheter-tip syringe (for size 14 French nasogastric tubes c and size 20 French gastrostomy tubes d) or a Luer-Lok-tip syringe (for size 8 French feeding ...

The percent delivery from the syringe and through the tube was better with the larger diameter tubes, perhaps because the size 8 French tube would not accommodate a catheter-tip syringe, and a ...