Evacuating the contaminated airway with a novel, simple, readily available setup ("Evacu8")

Christiana K Prucnal; Matteo Parotto; Ryan M Gardner; Stephen D Hallisey; Paul S Jansson; Barret Zimmerman; Raghu R Seethala; Annette M Ilg

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.111866

Evacuating the contaminated airway with a novel, simple, readily available setup ("Evacu8")

J Clin Anesth. 2025 Jun:104:111866. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.111866. Epub 2025 May 13.

Authors

Christiana K Prucnal¹, Matteo Parotto², Ryan M Gardner³, Stephen D Hallisey⁴, Paul S Jansson⁴, Barret Zimmerman⁴, Raghu R Seethala⁵, Annette M Ilg⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Anesthesia Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Division of Emergency Critical Care Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America. Electronic address: ailg@bwh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 40367863
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.111866

No abstract available

Keywords: Airway management; Airway obstruction; Contaminated airway; Difficult intubation; Suction.

Publication types

Letter