Intubating

July 28, 2008

The importance of quiet: “I had the feeling that we make it LOOK easy 99 times out of 100, so people FORGET that it’s a LIFE AND DEATH moment up there, getting the airway. It looks easy most of the time, and after a couple of thousand, yes, most of the time it’s a comfortable procedure, but there’s also nothing more important than that precarious moment right at that moment.”



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