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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.

    That's why I liked tubing babies...no teeth but man that crazy, sloppy tongue!!!

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    Congrats! I'm really looking forward to this part of the program. I'm still in didactic but can't wait to intubate and put in lines!

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    Congrats! I'm really looking forward to this part of the program. I'm still in didactic but can't wait to intubate and put in lines!

    It's definitely the fun part!! I'm glad they put this course in the middle of my program! That way we get time to practice the skills throughout most of our clinical rotations.

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    lol on the tongue- I do babies in the NICU and that tongue is the devil especially when the baby is fighting me on it and trying to bite me- no teeth at least!

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    lol on the tongue- I do babies in the NICU and that tongue is the devil especially when the baby is fighting me on it and trying to bite me- no teeth at least!

    Have you ever tried tape on the tongue side of the blade? It gives you a little extra traction to get the tongue under control. Works like magic!!!

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