Suctioning in the Real World

Dan Limmer
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I recently taught at an EMS conference in Connecticut. The topic of suctioning came up. We talked about how we’d been taught wrong for some time. If wrong seems like a tough word—then at the very least we can say that what we learned is unrealistic. This is what we were taught for years:

Suction for no longer than 15 seconds.

Why is this wrong? Because people may vomit for longer than 15 seconds, or it may take longer than that to remove...

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