Intubation What is intubation? Intubation, (Tracheal intubation) is the placement of a flexible plastic tube (Breathing Tube or Endotracheal Tube) into the trachea (windpipe), through the mouth or sometimes through the nose, to maintain an open airway or to serve as a conduit through which to administer certain drugs.
Extubation What is extubation? The removal of the Breathing Tube or Endotracheal Tube after Intubation of the larynx or trachea (wind pipe). The purpose of extubation in Intensive Care is to take the Patient off mechanical ventilation (Ventilators (Breathing Machines) so that he or she is able to breathe on their own. What is done?
BIPAP is an alternative therapy to Intubation and mechanical ventilation. During BIPAP your loved one would get a few breaks to be put back on an oxygen mask, as BIPAP on the one hand can be extremely effective improving oxygenation, but on the other hand can be very tiring.
Now sometimes what can lead to intubation as well is a cardiac condition, a heart condition such as heart attack, cardiac arrest, and if you’re fluid overload the lungs, you might have a fluid overloaded heart that’s weak and you’ve got to keep a patient dry, maximum 500 mls positive depending on the weight a little bit, and you’ve got ...
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care. So, today’s tip is a question that we get quite frequently and many of our readers actually want to know, “Is it normal to be ventilated after a heart attack?” And the answer is, it really depends. So, if someone is having a heart attack, not all patients end up in ICU or in ...
Before a doctor can intubate (=insertion of a breathing tube) a critically ill Patient, they need to be induced into coma, because again intubation, the breathing tube and mechanical ventilation can’t be tolerated without an induced coma as it’s too uncomfortable.
The insertion of a NasogastricTube (NG Tube), also known as Gastric intubation, via the nasal passage (ie, nasogastric route) is a common procedure in Intensive Care that provides access to the stomach for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
Intubation is the insertion of a breathing tube into the mouth that goes into the lungs to ventilate someone artificially. They are attached to a breathing machine, a ventilator, and that could be because of a pneumonia.
