How to Use intubation in a Sentence

intubation

noun

• The doctor had five patients, two intubation teams, and not very much time.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2020
• At one point, he was scheduled to have his intubation tube removed, but his fever spiked.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• The patient requires intubation and the player must figure out how best to remove the mass.
  — Edward Baig, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
• On the flipside, both Calfee and Gulart say that proning might obscure the need for intubation.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
• An emergency room and intubation tents were set up in the parking lot.
  — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
• Blood was seen on his intubation tube and on his hospital sheets.
  — Lucas Finton, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• In one study of 18 patients in the Seattle area, the average intubation time was 10 days, for instance.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 30 Apr. 2020
• And then came the intubation, a last-resort intervention to save her life.
  — Olivia Carville, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• A more likely scenario would be brain death and intubation.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
• But the process of placing the breathing tube in, called intubation, can expose health care workers to the illness through aerosols that escape from the patient's airway.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2020
• In some cases, aggressive intubation might have done more harm than good in patients who didn’t need it.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
• Some, even in the face of an intubation tube, question the need to be vaccinated or the effectiveness of the medicine being prescribed.
  — Nick Ehli, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2021
• Nash retrieved his mother’s phone from the hospital after her intubation, and Zeana told him to search it for a banking app.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• During the next few months, the most vocal proponents of intubation went on the offensive.
  — Lynn Arditi, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
• A couple of minutes after intubation, there are signs of progress: The woman's heart rate and vital signs improve.
  — Randi Kaye and Travis Caldwell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2021
• Many hospitals warn about the risk of shortages of oxygen and sedatives for intubation.
  — Michelle R. Smith, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• But a new wave of research now shows that a basic cough produces about 20 times more particles than intubation.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2021
• When Aris and Danny finally saw Yarielis again, her tiny 6-pound, 2-ounce body was under a tangle of tubes and wires, her small face half-hidden by the intubation.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• The difference in risk between each blood type for intubation, then, was 2.9 percent.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
• Some clients are adamant that intubation never takes place; other clients want to make sure that they can be intubated even with their living will in place.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2020
• Lungs can also be damaged while doctors try to save patients with CPR or intubation.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2020
• However, 13 of the patients weren’t helped for long and needed intubation within 24 hours.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
• Fauci said earlier in the week that the death toll would grow, but that lower admissions to intensive care units and rates of intubation were signs that there would soon be a turnaround.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2020
• Many of those children ended up needing intubation and a ventilator to breathe for them.
  — Jonathan Reisman, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
• Within 18 minutes, the test can identify patients who have been confirmed to carry the virus who may need intubation, the company said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020
• The number of patients needing intubation kept rising; often, she was startled by the speed with which their breathing declined.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
• The city’s oxygen supply isn’t guaranteed, and stocks of sedatives required for intubation in intensive care units will soon run out.
  — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• The city's oxygen supply isn't guaranteed, and stocks of sedatives required for intubation in intensive care units will soon run out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Vaccinated people infected with the virus are much less likely to need to go to the hospital, much less likely to need intubation and much less likely to die from the illness.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2021
• Body bag stored in drink cooler Jones' remains were found inside a body bag inside a beverage cooler, with an intubation tube still inside his mouth, court documents say.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024