Re:Apple Faceshield
by FireBeyond on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:42PM
(#22809047)
> intubation, which is the process of pulling or pushing a tube down a patient's esophagus
Hope not. It's endotracheal intubation. Tubing the gut (accidentally) leads to gastric distention as we ventilate the patient, leads to aspiration, leads to aspiration pneumonia, leads to huge increase in morbidity.
Hope not. It's endotracheal intubation. Tubing the gut (accidentally) leads to gastric distention as we ventilate the patient, leads to aspiration, leads to aspiration pneumonia, leads to huge increase in morbidity.