PEDIATRICS Vol. 80 No. 3 September 1987, pp. 461
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Meconium Suctioning

PERRY EISNER MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90509

In Reply.—

The technique that I described is briefly as follows. The finger device is removed from a standard suction catheter and attached to a 3.0- or 3.5-mm endotracheal tube after removing the endotracheal tube's adaptor. The infant is intubated with this endotracheal tube and the wall suction tubing is attached with low wall suction applied. The technique has two advantages over Dr Beck's procedure. Although they both are effective means of removing meconium without risk to the resuscitator, the delivery room must first be stocked with a 10-F semistiff suction catheter with a side suction control valve.