How to Use intubate in a Sentence

intubate

verb
  • He was intubated, and his doctors were concerned about his vital signs.
    Laura Kwerel, NPR, 19 June 2024
  • At least one was later intubated and airlifted to a burn center for specialty care.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • While he was still intubated last May, a nurse gave him a pen to write a note.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The EMTs tried to intubate him but could not insert the breathing tube.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The team had to intubate and place her on a ventilator.
    Author: Evan Bush, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
  • Three of the four had been intubated for long periods of time.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Owen dives into trauma mode and saves the man's life by intubating him through his chest with a scalpel.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • On Twitter, an E.R. doctor says that he’s just had to intubate one of his colleagues.
    Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • MacInnis heard an overhead page for the anesthesia team to come to the ICU to intubate a patient so sick as to need a machine to breathe for them.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There was a rush to intubate him and the patient, Garcia recalls, didn’t even have time to see his mother on FaceTime.
    Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • Among the 13 admitted to the ICU, seven had to be intubated, according to the report.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • According to the ministry, the patient was in the intensive care unit and was intubated.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Rosling knew her mother wanted to fight to stay alive and gave doctors permission to intubate her.
    Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • So the director had to choose to extubate an older patient in order to intubate the younger one.
    Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The next day she was admitted to the hospital, where she was intubated and remained in the intensive care unit for 56 days.
    Michelle Brunner, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
  • There was the 21-year-old woman who was paralyzed and intubated.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • His esophagus had ripped; he was intubated and spent 23 days in the hospital.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Her hospital didn’t have the equipment to intubate him, so Araújo prescribed an opioid.
    Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Doctors dried and intubated her, wrapped her and placed her under a radiant warmer to try to keep her organs from shutting down.
    Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Providers at Banner Desert made the decision to intubate and put her on a ventilator, Rodolfo said.
    Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The victim was intubated at the scene and transported to a local hospital for surgery, but died late Thursday evening, police said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In the post, the former host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition revealed that he was intubated in the hospital after an abscess in his throat closed off his airway.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
  • So the medical director had to choose to extubate this older patient in order to intubate the younger one.
    Matt Rivers, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
  • His second wife rushed him to the hospital, and doctors had to intubate him before giving him anesthesia, because there was no time to spare.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Espinoza was taken to a hospital, intubated and placed in the intensive care unit.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
  • Arnold was intubated, then put into a coma, her mother said.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
  • The patient’s oxygen levels got so low that doctors had to intubate the mother and perform an emergency C-section.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The teen was intubated and transferred to a local ICU in critical condition.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The coronavirus kept Molly Dawson from begging her colleagues not to intubate her.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2020
  • He was then taken to a hospital for treatment, as of Monday morning the man remains intubated at the hospital.
    The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023

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