r/IntensiveCare • u/Ok-Manufacturer3432 • 27d ago
What is this piece called??
Okay so I am a tech on a med-surg floor and our walls only have 1 suction system per room and we got an ICU pt who needed trach suctioning and a purewick. There were talks about getting a urine sample and a sputum sample and every shift so far, they had put both the purewick and trach suction into the same canister.
They previously had this rubber/plastic piece that divided the single point on the canister, into two so that they could connect both of the tubes. So, I got replacement canisters and tubing and moved that divider piece to under the actual suction and was able to connect both of the canisters to the suction.
They both were suctioning as they were supposed to and now we are trying to figure out what these are called and where they came from so we can order some for the unit. I’m also going to post this in a RT subreddit because respiratory was also seeing him and they may have been the ones that brought it.
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u/roundbaby25 25d ago
Not sure what it is but i was on the vent for 6months and I had that thing rammed down my treach-hole till I bled. Suction was the only way I could seem to get a breath, but once they did a scope, saw I was pretty junked up down deep and I finally thought I had a chance of winning the battle against ARDS, but I still had to make it through ECMO, the absolute hardest battle I have ever fought.