intubation

One of my favorite intubation positions is having the patient lying supine, then lying prone 'above' them.

Paramedics don't get very much in-hospital time here, other than getting intubation experience in the OR with an anesthesiologist.

Usually that's a prelude to intubation but if you walk away in the middle it kills.

We then waited for 15-20 minutes for maximum local anesthesia and vasoconstriction, then removed the pledgets and proceeded with nasal intubation.

Not unlike a painful, fruitless intubation that has no chance of providing quality life-hours.

As an opioid in rapid sequence induction, potentially used for tracheal intubation.

Use of intubation, advanced airway interventions, mechanical ventilation, and cardioversion as indicated.

Any intubation equipment (or at least airway adjuncts (LMA, King, etc))?

Sure, there's this.1% chance that you might screw up an intubation, but that seems to be more of an issue of bad training than bad equipment.

Self-taught, you can do everything from intubation to surgery.

I go ahead and do an emergency intubation all by my lonesome.

A nice aid to successful intubation: As a rule, we chose to intubate via the nostril which most easily and deeply accommodated the pledget.

Hell, the ED I see most often has checklists to "stop and review" (and they do) for things that most people would consider (and are) time-critical, cardiac arrests, intubation, and the like.

So now your grandmother is getting is a intubation tube shoved down their throat, chest compressions, and whatever and is not a state to figure out "wow this fucking sucks" anymore, also someone just collapsed your rib-cage giving you chest compressions.

Maybe I just haven't been paying close enough attention, but I was unaware that we were anally raping prisoners under the pretense of "feeding" and "hydrating." In fact the media dog and pony show about the hunger strikes specifically said nasal intubation for feeding, which was presented as being unpleasant but an humane manner of keeping the prisoners alive.

Now, I know the principles of anesthesia, though I'd never claim my knowledge was within orders of magnitude of that of a specialist, but I routinely perform RSI for ET intubation, and I know all about "the charge isn't for the time, it's the knowledge", but nonetheless.

Intubation is appropriately American these days.

Intubation is performed without stopping compressions.