For suction, I just use a 60cc syringe attached to about 8 inches of suction tubing. It is cheap, compact, easy to use, and at least as effective as a couple of the expensive manual devices I've tried.
Jeff
Jeez, that's bone-head simple. I should have thought of that! Now I'm going to steal that idea.
Ditto the above on having stuff outside your scope. I've been debating adding a few bags of saline, but I don't know if A) they hold up to winters in Michigan (not to mention the catastrophic effects of infusing a nearly freezing IV fluid), and B) "technically" it's outside my scope.... til May.