Intubating a patient without proper training or equipment carries a high risk of accidental esophageal intubation, which can be fatal. — Whalespan
Intubating a patient without proper training or equipment carries a high risk of accidental esophageal intubation, which can be fatal.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“it's so easy to put that tube accidentally into the esophagus and you think you're doing it right and all of a sudden you you know you get the tube in you hook it up to the ventilator you think everything's going well and but by the time you realize you're providing oxygen to their stomach instead of their lungs it can be too late right”
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