公开(公告)号：US5755688A

公开(公告)日：1998-05-26

申请号：US673853

申请日：1996-07-01

申请人： Carl Joseph Piontek ,  Terrence Bruce Mazer ,  Joseph Edward Walton ,  Bonita Kay Geckle

发明人： Carl Joseph Piontek ,  Terrence Bruce Mazer ,  Joseph Edward Walton ,  Bonita Kay Geckle

IPC分类号： A61J15/00 ,  A61M5/14 ,  A61M37/00

CPC分类号： A61M5/1409 ,  A61J15/0026 ,  A61J15/0069 ,  A61J15/00

摘要： An apparatus and method are disclosed for modifying a liquid enteral nutritional product during delivery thereof from a supply to a feeding tube delivering the modified liquid enteral nutritional product to the gastrointestinal tract of a patient. At least one beneficial agent not in controlled release dosage form in a useful, dose unit, amount, is disposed within a formulation chamber so as to be taken up in a liquid enteral nutritional product traversing the formulation chamber while feeding the modified nutritional product into the gastrointestinal tract of a patient. The beneficial additive(s) are selected from nutrients, medicaments, probiotics, or diagnostic agents, or mixtures thereof, each in a dosage form that is dispersible in the medium of the liquid enteral nutritional product in less than two hours.