When a 3-year-old girl is brought into your remote emergency department
after being struck by a car, she has gurgling respirations and is
unconscious with a pediatric GCS of 4 (no eye opening, no verbal
response, and decerebrate posturing). You need to intubate her, but the
smallest endotracheal tube (ETT) you have is size 7.0 mm; she needs a
5.0 mm (ID) or smaller tube. How do you rapidly make an ETT for her?
When a 3-year-old girl is brought into your remote emergency department
after being struck by a car, she has gurgling respirations and is
unconscious with a pediatric GCS of 4 (no eye opening, no verbal
response, and decerebrate posturing). You need to intubate her, but the
smallest endotracheal tube (ETT) you have is size 7.0 mm; she needs a
5.0 mm (ID) or smaller tube. How do you rapidly make an ETT for her?
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