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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1996
Ronita Kay Geckle, Columbus, OH (US);
Terrence Bruce Mazer, Reynoldsburg, OH (US);
Joseph Edward Walton, Westerville, OH (US);
Carl Joseph Piontek, Powell, OH (US);
Susan Beth Duel, Laurinburg, NC (US);
Andre Daab-Krzykowski, Columbus, OH (US);
Mark Anthony McCamish, Worthington, OH (US);
Robert Louis Joseph, Columbus, OH (US);
William Guy Pierson, Canal Winchester, OH (US);
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for modifying a liquid enteral nutritional product during delivery thereof from a supply container to a feeding tube delivering the nutritional product to the gastrointestinal tract of a patient. During enteral tube feeding the nutritional product passes through a formulation chamber, e.g., a drip chamber, having located therein at least one controlled release dosage form unit containing at least one beneficial agent. The beneficial agent may be selected from nutrients, medicaments, probiotics, or diagnostic agents or mixtures thereof, and any such together with a physiologically acceptable marker dye in controlled release dosage form and/or the same or different additional beneficial agent not in controlled release dosage form. Controlled release dosage forms may be of a conventional sustained release type or an osmotically driven delivery device.