Considering that all intubated and ventilated patients may require ET suctioning to maintain a patent airway, there can be no absolute contraindications to the procedure. [9] All patients should ...

Conclusions: Endotracheal suctioning is a procedure used regularly in the pediatric intensive care unit. Despite this, good evidence supporting its practice is limited. Further, controlled ...

Results showed some evidence that suctioning could safely be performed as rarely as every eight hours plus as needed, that catheter size should not be larger than 70% of internal diameter of ...