This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. They had bolstered their ranks with everyone available. They’d hired traveling respiratory therapists, to stop in ...

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is running out of inline suction catheters used to treat patients on ventilators, and the shortage is putting providers at risk, STAT reported. Carolyn La Vita ...

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.