Performing Endotracheal Intubation
Performing Endotracheal Intubation
You are at the mall early in the morning and there are dozens of mall walkers. These are people of different ages, twenties, thirties, all the way up to the age of eighty. One man in particular catches everyone's eye. He is a person possibly near the age of forty who suddenly grasps his chest and collapses to the floor. People rushed to his side only to discover that this man had no pulse and he is not breathing. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated by a bystander and the paramedics were summoned. When we arrived on scene, there was a flurry of activity as the man's life hung in the balance. His pulse is restored, but he still is not breathing and his color is different shades of blue. There must be a way to get air into his lungs or he will die. "Shall we intubate?", Michelle asks me. She was new as a paramedic and was not quite adept yet at making decisions. "What does intubate mean?", the man's walking companion was frantically asking as......
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