Patent ID: 9227022
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: A61J,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A method of feeding a neonate with warm nutritional liquid, the method comprising the steps of: filling a neonate feeding syringe with nutritional liquid; connecting a tube to the neonate feeding syringe; placing the tube in fluid communication with a stomach of the neonate; placing a heater on the tube for heating the nutritional fluid flowing through the tube, the heater being positioned on the tube closer to the neonate than the neonate feeding syringe along a length of the tube for feeding the neonate with warm nutritional liquid before the nutritional cools down as the nutritional fluid travels through the tube from the heater to the stomach of the neonate; flowing the nutritional liquid from the neonate feeding syringe, through the tube and to the neonate; heating the nutritional liquid flowing through the tube with the heater so that a temperature of the nutritional liquid is above room temperature when the nutritional liquid reaches the neonate to facilitate digestion of the warm nutritional liquid by the neonate.