Every school in NYC would be required to have “airway clearance devices” to help prevent choking deaths under a City Council bill gaining bipartisan steam.

The primary purpose of a suction machine, an aspirator, is to clear blockages from a person’s airway, such as mucus, saliva, blood, or secretions. Suction machines assist breathing by keeping ...

Just last month, a Tampa police officer's body camera captured a heart-stopping moment: a panicked man rushed up to officers holding a choking toddler in his arms, begging for help. The officers ...

The LifeVac Home Kit includes airtight masks that connect to a clear and yellow suction device. ... for further evidence on the benefits and harms of suction-based airway clearance devices. ...

An Acworth Police officer is being praised for her swift actions to help a driver choking on a water bottle cap. The driver, identified as Steven Williams, pulled over in the area of New McEver Road ...

Capt. Tyler Scaff’s airway management device couples a suction catheter with a breathing tube stylet to help physicians clear blood, saliva, emesis, and other obstructions from a patient’s ...

The difference was driven by greater use of additional suctioning devices in the minimal suction group (17.9% vs 6.0%, P<0.001), not by any discernible reduction in unscheduled ED revisits in the ...

In adults undergoing general anesthesia, the i-gel, a second generation supraglottic airway (SGA) device, is associated with fewer respiratory complications than the first generation LMA-Unique ...

Baby airway suction little value. Inhaling faeces during delivery can be dangerous. Sucking clear a baby's airways to prevent a potentially fatal respiratory disease is probably ineffective, say ...

There have been calls for the widespread use of suction airway clearance devices in Queensland early childhood centres following the choking death of a little boy at a Cairns daycare centre ...