- It is a single use, non sterile rigid suction catheter specifically designed to clear semi solid and liquid aspirate from upper airway.
- The SSCOR DuCanto Catheter has a larger inside diameter than a standard Yankauer suction tip to facilitate the removal of fluids as well as solid material. The larger suction lumen makes it significantly less likely to clog in an emergency situation.
- The hyper curved catheter is shaped more like a patient's airway making it easy to position the catheter and work with other complementary devices used to clear a patient’s airway.
- Finke at al (BMC Anesthesiology.2022) did a comparative study compared a standard 14Ch suction catheter, a Yankauer catheter and DuCanto Catheter using 4 fluids with different viscosity (Tap water, syrup like, honey like and pudding like viscosity). Study showed that the new DuCanto catheter was more effective than the Yankauer catheter that was more effective than a standard suctioning catheter. The relative superiority of the DuCanto was highest in fluids with high viscosity.
Reference
- Finke, SR., Schroeder, D.C., Ecker, H. et al. Comparing suction rates of novel DuCanto catheter against Yankauer and standard suction catheter using liquids of different viscosity—a technical simulation. BMC Anesthesiol 22, 285 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-022-01830-2
