The essential consumables and components that support and enhance the function of primary respiratory equipment. This includes tubing, filters, masks, connectors, cleaning kits, and other vital items necessary for safe, effective, and comfortable patient care.

Bacterial Filters

Bacterial Filters are single-use, high-efficiency filters used in mechanical ventilation and anesthesia circuits to remove bacteria and viruses from inspired and expired gases. Protecting patients, equipment, and staff from cross-contamination, they are essential for infection control in intensive care units, operating rooms, and during patient transport. Critical for immunocompromised patients and infection prevention protocols.

Catheter Mount

A Catheter Mount is a flexible, extensible connector between the breathing circuit and endotracheal tube, tracheostomy tube, or laryngeal mask airway. It absorbs movement and tension during patient positioning and surgery, reducing the risk of airway device displacement. Integrated sampling ports allow continuous gas monitoring, while flexible design accommodates patient movement without compromising ventilation.

Chest Bottle

 A Chest Bottle (Underwater Seal Drainage System) is a three-chamber disposable device used to drain air and fluid from the pleural space via a chest tube. Its critical component is a water seal chamber that acts as a one-way valve, preventing air from re-entering the chest while allowing drainage. It is used to treat pneumothorax, hemothorax, and pleural effusions, and is mandatory post-thoracic surgery. The system must always be kept upright and below the patient's chest level. It provides essential clinical information through tidaling in the water seal (indicating tube patency and lung expansion) and bubbling (indicating an air leak), making it both a therapeutic and diagnostic tool.

Closed Suction Catheter

A Closed Suction Catheter is an in-line suction system that allows airway clearance without disconnecting the ventilator, maintaining continuous PEEP and ventilation during suctioning. The closed design reduces the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia and prevents oxygen desaturation. Essential for intensive care units, operating rooms, and home ventilation, it provides safer, more effective secretion management for intubated patients.

Heat & Moisture Exchanger Filter

A Heat & Moisture Exchanger Filter is a single-use device that captures the patient's own heat and moisture from exhaled breath during mechanical ventilation, returning it to the inspired gas to maintain airway humidity. It also provides high-efficiency bacterial and viral filtration, protecting the patient, circuit, and environment. Essential for short-term ventilation, transport, and anesthesia circuits, it simplifies circuit management while providing critical airway protection.

Suction Catheter with Control

A Suction Catheter with Control is a sterile, single-use catheter designed for airway secretion clearance in intubated and tracheostomized patients. The thumb-controlled vacuum port allows precise, intermittent suction, minimizing mucosal trauma and hypoxia. Available in multiple sizes for all patient populations, it is essential for respiratory care in intensive care units, operating rooms, and home ventilation settings.

Suction Catheters

Suction Catheters are sterile, single-use flexible tubes designed for aspiration of pulmonary secretions from the airways of intubated, tracheostomized, or spontaneously breathing patients unable to clear their own secretions. Available in French sizes 5 Fr-18 Fr, with whistle-tip or coude configurations, single or multiple eyelets, and thumb-controlled suction valves. Open suction catheters are single-pass devices requiring strict sterile technique and immediate disposal. Closed (in-line) suction catheters are enclosed in a sterile sheath, permitting suctioning without ventilator disconnection, maintaining PEEP, and reducing aerosolization of pathogens—essential for high-frequency ventilation, ARDS, and airborne precautions. Critical safety parameters include catheter gauge not exceeding one-half the endotracheal tube internal diameter, suction duration ≤15 seconds, and vacuum pressure ≤150 mmHg. Proper technique prevents hypoxemia, mucosal trauma, and ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Yankauer Suction

A Yankauer Suction is a sterile, rigid, single-use suction tip designed for safe and effective clearance of secretions from a patient's mouth and throat (oropharyngeal suction). Characterized by its curved shaft, smooth perforated tip, and a control vent for intermittent suction, it is the standard instrument for surgical field evacuation, post-operative care, and routine airway management. Its design allows for precise control to minimize mucosal trauma while efficiently removing fluids. As a critical consumable component, it connects suction tubing to the patient and is essential for maintaining a clear airway and surgical field across all clinical environments.

Yankauer Suction with Connecting Tube

A Yankauer Suction with Connecting Tube is a rigid, wide-bore suction tip used for efficient removal of secretions from the mouth, throat, and nasal passages. The thumb-controlled port allows precise suction control, while the rigid design enables accurate placement. Essential for oropharyngeal suctioning, surgical field clearance, and emergency airway management.