How to Use intubation in a Sentence

intubation

noun
  • Blood was seen on his intubation tube and on his hospital sheets.
    — Lucas Finton, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, he was scheduled to have his intubation tube removed, but his fever spiked.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The doctor had five patients, two intubation teams, and not very much time.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2020
  • This process, called intubation, keeps the airway open so that oxygen can flow again.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • An emergency room and intubation tents were set up in the parking lot.
    — USA Today, 21 Oct. 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
  • And then came the intubation, a last-resort intervention to save her life.
    — Olivia Carville, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • The patient requires intubation and the player must figure out how best to remove the mass.
    — Edward Baig, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • Their final calls to their families before intubation are their last.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Many hospitals warn about the risk of shortages of oxygen and sedatives for intubation.
    — Michelle R. Smith, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • No one except Helen is shocked when her father isn’t handling the intubation well.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Many of those children ended up needing intubation and a ventilator to breathe for them.
    — Jonathan Reisman, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
  • 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
  • During the next few months, the most vocal proponents of intubation went on the offensive.
    — Lynn Arditi, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • On the flipside, both Calfee and Gulart say that proning might obscure the need for intubation.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • And if a patient declined quickly, doctors would be forced to do a riskier emergency intubation.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The intubation box is placed over the head of the patient, allowing the doctor to perform procedures through openings on the box.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2020
  • Moon’s life-saving act is believed to be the first field intubation performed by a paramedic in the United States.
    — Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
  • Moments from intubation, gasping for breath, these patients still rejected the idea of the Covid vaccine with the rage that comes from fear.
    — Emilie G.c. Thompson, STAT, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Lungs can also be damaged while doctors try to save patients with CPR or intubation.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 16 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Queiroga told reporters this week that the decrease in hospitalizations has eased demand for oxygen and sedatives for intubation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Standard intubation tools require clinicians to lift this flap using a rigid metal laryngoscope.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025

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