Hand-powered suction systems are the devices meant for oropharyngeal suction to keep the airway patency. The systems should respond to a number of performance and safety requirements. The equipment may be operated either by hand or by foot, as well as by them both. There are several variations of the equipment. One of the most popular is a portable suction system. There are also non-electrical devices that are integrated with electrical ones.
The medical suction procedure has been known to the health professionals all over the world for a long time, and they have efficiently contributed to the process of modernizing the medical suction equipment in order to make it ultimately correspond to the requirements, established by the form of application in both regular and emergency use.