Nurses at a hospital in South Yorkshire have helped find a solution to tangled suction and oxygen equipment, which could soon be used across the NHS. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ ...

Most UK critical care nurses suction the trachea during cuff deflation and extubation of patients or ask the person to cough, research into airway management techniques has indicated. Subscribe today ...

Tracheostomy suctioning is a procedure that helps clear mucus secretions in people with a tracheostomy tube. Some individuals may require frequent suctioning, for example, if they have a lung ...

Historically, suctioning an endotracheal (ET) tube has been used routinely to remove pulmonary secretions that can block an endotracheal tube and impair air exchange in intubated patients of all ages.