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Suction Catheter 14FR – Green
£0.90
£0.75
Expertly designed for efficient respiratory secretion removal, ensuring patient comfort. Suitable for various medical settings. Transparent, medical-grade PVC. Seven colour-coded sizes available.
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- 14FR – Green
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- 18FR – Red
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SKU
WSTE0106
Atraumatic tip and smooth design for patient comfort and seamless insertion.
This suction catheter is an essential medical tool designed to ensure the clear and unobstructed breathing of patients. This flexible, elongated tube facilitates in the swift and efficient removal of respiratory secretions from the airway, thereby preventing any potential blockages.
Designed with the clinician's ease in mind, it features an atraumatic tip with a double offset eye, ensuring uninterrupted functionality. The smooth exterior ensures patient comfort upon insertion. Its versatile connector ends complement its functionality, ensuring its compatibility across various suction units. The catheter's colour-coded design aids in swift size identification.
As a testament to our dedication to quality and hygiene, each graduated suction catheter is sterile and intended for single use. The defining funnel shape of the catheter's connection end is not only functional but also a preventive measure against inadvertent disconnections.
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Seven Reasons to Buy Suction Catheters
- Atraumatic Tip: Each catheter boasts a gentle, atraumatic tip with a double offset eye, providing a safeguard should the distal hole become occluded.
- Smooth Insertion: Designed with a smooth exterior, ensuring patients experience a comfortable and hassle-free insertion process.
- Versatile Compatibility: Various connector ends are available, making it adaptable with an extensive range of suction units and aspirators.
- Easy Size Identification: The catheters are colour-coded by size, facilitating swift and effortless visual identification. Hygienic Packaging: Each catheter is supplied in sterile, individual peel pouches, ensuring maximum hygiene and ease of access.
- High-Quality Material: Manufactured from medical-grade PVC, the transparent design allows clinicians to spot any blockages promptly.
- Safety Assured: The catheter is kink-resistant, transparent, and free from any sharp edges, ensuring patient safety and clear visual checks.
What are Suction Catheters Used For?
Our suction catheter is an expertly made, flexible tube designed specifically for safely and effectively removing substances within the body, primarily from the respiratory tract. Its central purpose is to offer unobstructed access to the respiratory tract, ensuring the gentle extraction of secretions, providing maximum comfort to the patient in the process. This becomes especially important for critically ill or injured patients, those with an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube, as they need periodic suctioning to clear their airways of secretions. These catheters are sterile, single-use devices designed to ensure open airways by eradicating secretions from the nasopharyngeal space, trachea, and bronchial carina. It's important to note that the device is intended for short-term use.
How to Use the Suction Catheters
Following the correct procedure is essential for ensuring patient safety and effective suctioning. Please adhere to the following steps:
- Size Selection: Prior to use, ensure you've chosen the correct size of the catheter.
- Package Inspection: Carefully open the packaging and extract the device. If the package appears damaged in any way, refrain from using the device. It's imperative to follow stringent infection prevention protocols to minimise contamination risks.
- Device Check: Always verify the catheter's patency before each use.
- Connection: Attach the catheter's universal funnel connector to a regulated vacuum source.
- Insertion: Gently introduce the suction catheter without applying any suction pressure.
- Handling Resistance: Should you encounter resistance, avoid using force. It may be necessary to reinsert the catheter.
- Monitor Vacuum Regulator: Confirm that the vacuum regulator is functioning correctly. Ensure the set negative pressures are appropriate to prevent complications such as tissue damage, hypoxia, or atelectasis.
- Patient Monitoring: Continuously monitor the patient's vital signs before, during, and after aspiration, utilising the appropriate monitoring system.
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Product Specifications
| Specification | Details |
| Size | 14FR |
| Tip Colour | Green |
| Material | Medical-Grade PVC |
| Usage | Single-Use, Sterile |
| Tip Design | Atraumatic Tip with Double Offset Eye |
| Surface | Smooth for Easy Insertion |
| Connector Ends | Versatile Compatibility with Suction Units & Aspirators |
| Size Identification | Colour Coded |
| Packaging | Individual Sterile Peel Pouches |
| Transparency | Manufactured to allow clear visibility of any blockages |
Where to Use Suction Catheters
Respiratory Therapy
- Tracheostomy Care: Ideal for patients with tracheostomies to clear secretions that might block the tube, ensuring a clear air passage.
- Endotracheal Tubes: Essential for maintaining clear airways in tubes inserted through the mouth or nose into the trachea.
- Bronchoscopy: Enhances the physician's visibility during procedures by efficiently removing secretions or mucus.
Surgical Settings
Particularly useful during thoracic and abdominal surgeries, the catheters aid in maintaining a clear operating field by removing blood, fluids, or debris.
Intensive Care Units (ICU)
For intubated patients on mechanical ventilation, regular suctioning with these catheters prevents potential lung complications, ensuring their wellbeing.
Emergency Scenarios
In instances of trauma, aspiration, or even drowning, these catheters are essential for quickly clearing the airway of foreign materials or secretions to enable proper breathing.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The catheter is designed to provide access to the respiratory tract to efficiently remove secretions, ensuring maximum comfort to the patient.
Our catheter boasts unique features like an atraumatic tip, compatibility with various suction units, colour-coded sizes, and medical-grade PVC construction, making it stand out from competing products.
No, if the package is compromised, it's best not to use the device to avoid the risk of contamination and infection.
The catheter is versatile, ideal for respiratory therapy, surgeries, ICUs, emergency situations, dental procedures, and other medical scenarios.
Ensure you're using the correct size, check its patency before each use, and always monitor the patient's vital signs during the procedure. Don't force the catheter if there's resistance.
Yes, proper suctioning technique and depth are vital, and sterile practice is crucial to prevent potential complications and infections.
Our catheters are colour-coded according to size, facilitating easy identification and selection based on the patient's requirements.
Absolutely! These catheters are made from transparent medical-grade PVC, ensuring safety and allowing clinicians to swiftly spot any blockages.
Yes, it's essential to ensure the vacuum regulator is working correctly and the set negative pressures are adequate to prevent any possible complications.
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