The suction dismembers the body of the developing baby and tears the placenta from the wall of the uterus, sucking blood, amniotic fluid, placental tissue, and fetal parts into a collection bottle.

Using inductive plethysmography, it was shown that open-ET suctioning of newborn infants (n = 7) receiving high-frequency oscillatory ventilation caused a significant loss of lung volume ...

An important tenet of practice for all health care personnel is to first do no harm. This idea takes on additional importance when dealing with newborns, as there is almost no long-term data on ...