Endotracheal Confirmation Standards There Are No Substitutions

Is intubating someone "𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙣?"

Countless medical malpractice lawsuits say → "𝙉𝙊"

Anesthesiologists are experts in airway management
↳ So, I am retained in many cases with airway failures

Endotracheal tube placement requires confirmation(s):

• No chest rise → The tube is not in
• No capnography → The tube is not in
• No fogging in the tube → The tube is not in
• No exhaled calorimetric CO2 → The tube is not in

And those are only the immediate checks.
↳ Follow up with:

• Chest Xray
• Fluoroscopy
• Bronchoscopy

Failure to confirm endotracheal tube placement
↳Can result in a hypoxic-ischemic injury

𝗣.𝗦. - 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻?