Once they know where to place it to remove any blockages the Hand powered Vitalograph Aspirator is a brilliant bit of kit I came across it while doing some work for a medical company I work for. If somebody gets a fluid blockage in their throat that is when somebody will normally use the Vitalograph Aspirator.

What happens a lot of the time with things like vomit is that if the person is lieing on their back the fluid will have nowhere to go and this causes something called Laryngospasm which allows you to breath out but doesn’t allow you to breath in. This stops the person breathing the fluid into their lungs but prevents them from breathing.

Get somebody into the recovery position as soon as you can if you come across them, and they are on their back and seem to be having some problem with breathing. The Vitalograph Aspirator creates a vacuum when you squeeze the handle that draws the fluid away from the throat of the person allowing the person to breath. If for some reason the patients airways keep getting filled with liquid the Vitalograph Aspirator will just start pumping the fluid out of the back of it rather than stop functioning.

A lot of people arent aware of this useful bit of kit or the recovery position and I find it amazing that something as simple as a hand pump can save lives. I had to draft this article so that lots of people were aware of it and could make sure that they either had the Aspirator available in their place of work be it a pool or the beach or knew what might be happening to the person and get them into a position (the recovery position)where the fluid to drain away from the person.