# K160787: Gabriel Feeding Tube with Balloon, Magnetically Guided Feeding Tube w/Balloon, Gabriel Feeding Tube with Balloon, Preassembled with Stylet

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Syncro Medical Innovations, Inc.
- Decided: Aug 9, 2016 after 140 days
- Product code: KNT (Tubes, Gastrointestinal (And Accessories))
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 876.5980
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 4 generations back to K972437 (1998). 4 ancestors in all.
1 later device descends from it; 1 cites it directly.
0 of 6 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K110005: Syncro - Blue Tube, the Magnetically Guided Enteral Feeding Tube- 8FR Tube, Syncro Medical Innovations, Inc. (2011) Summary page 6.

## Most influential descendants
- K191784: Gabriel Feeding Tube with Balloon, and EnFit Connector (2019), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
The Gabriel Feeding Tube with balloon functions as a conduit to facilitate enteral feeding, and may be used in adult or elderly patients who cannot consume an adequate diet orally. Small bowel feeding may be indicated for patients with functioning gut who require short to moderate term feeding support, such as post-trauma patients, burn patients, general trauma patients, high-risk patients prone to tube misplacement complications, and patients in whom malnutrition exist, or may result, secondary to an underlying disease or condition.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K160787
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology