Code airway. Post-op thyroid. What do you do?
I'm wondering what you would all do.
You have just taken a patient off the table in emerg. theatre following I&D of an abscess. You're walking out to consent the lap appendix in holding bay. You get a "Code airway" page to a geries ward.
You get there and find a post-op thyroid patient (5 hours post-op) tripodding in blind panic while a surgical intern is trying to get them to lie flat so they can take a blood pressure.
Sats are 92%, O2 at 15L (code team says he's been above 90% for the...
Code airway. Post-op thyroid. What do you do?
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