First Intubation!!

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Specializes in ICU.

Just had to share: I successfully intubated 2 real patients (plus a 3rd with an LMA) for the first time today!!!! 😃 It was such a rush getting the ETT in and seeing the chest rise (and hearing breath sounds and getting etCO2)! 😃 SO cool!!!

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Great!!! Great feeling it is. (Yoda voice)

Seriously, that's awesome and try not to get lazy down the road and try to use the laryngoscope as a fulcrum. It's a great tool for breaking teeth and causing oropharyngeal trauma... (I am/was a Paramedic and I remember my first too!) Good technique helps to minimize that stuff.

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Specializes in ICU.
Great!!! Great feeling it is. (Yoda voice)

Seriously, that's awesome and try not to get lazy down the road and try to use the laryngoscope as a fulcrum. It's a great tool for breaking teeth and causing oropharyngeal trauma... (I am/was a Paramedic and I remember my first too!) Good technique helps to minimize that stuff.

Definitely! The anesthesiologist told me that if I rock onto the teeth that my "turn" was over!

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Just curious; are you a student NP or SRNA? Because I never thought NPs intubate....

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.
Just curious; are you a student NP or SRNA? Because I never thought NPs intubate....

They do.

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Specializes in ICU.
Just curious; are you a student NP or SRNA? Because I never thought NPs intubate....

I'm in an Acute Care NP program! So, yes, we learn intubation (among other things- like chest tube insertion, suturing, central and arterial line placement, etc).

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Specializes in NICU, telemetry.

Awesome!! Check you out!

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Specializes in NICU, telemetry.
Just curious; are you a student NP or SRNA? Because I never thought NPs intubate....

Ditto on what they said. I work in NICU now, but our NPs intubate all the time, and on my tele floor during a lot of codes, NPs would.

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Good to know... Thanks!

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Acute care NPs do intubate and put in lines.

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
Great!!! Great feeling it is. (Yoda voice)

Seriously, that's awesome and try not to get lazy down the road and try to use the laryngoscope as a fulcrum. It's a great tool for breaking teeth and causing oropharyngeal trauma... (I am/was a Paramedic and I remember my first too!) Good technique helps to minimize that stuff.

Wouldn't the teeth be the fulcrum with the laryngoscope being the lever?

Former Physics major here.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
I'm in an Acute Care NP program! So, yes, we learn intubation (among other things- like chest tube insertion, suturing, central and arterial line placement, etc).

Rock Stars!! :up:

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