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First Intubation!!

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

    They do.

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

    Former Physics major here.

    Minor detail... ;) I appreciate the correction!

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