"Or else, should we intubate?" Li Qi’an’s brain started working, and he suddenly suggested.

This guy actually stayed in the obstetrics department, does he know it’s time to intubate the child now? Lin Hao hurriedly glanced at Student Li and asked, "What type of intubation?"

Need to know what type of intubation so that we can rush to the ambulance to find the emergency equipment.

There are several options for intubating a child, similar to adult intubation. Is it an oropharyngeal airway, or a tracheal intubation using a laryngoscope?

"This, this—" Anxiously, Li Qi’an felt his brain stutter again, digging hard through his memory for the knowledge point, "That thing doesn’t look like an oropharyngeal airway used by adults, it has a mask, seems like I’ve seen it in the operating room?"

"A mask and the tube for tracheal intubation, are you talking about a laryngeal mask?" Saying this, Lin Hao wanted to kick Student Li’s butt, having to recall what it was called after all this time despite never having been to the obstetrics department.

"Yes, yes, it’s a laryngeal mask." Li Qi’an nodded vigorously, "They say the laryngeal mask doesn’t require a laryngoscope to insert, it can be blindly inserted, we can totally give it a try."

A laryngeal mask refers to the laryngeal mask airway, which along with the oropharyngeal airway and tracheal intubation constitute artificial airways established by doctors, primarily used in emergency resuscitation and operating room anesthesia. Although one end of the laryngeal mask resembles the tracheal tube and tracheal intubation tube, it is not a tracheal intubation. The laryngeal mask’s tube is short in length and does not require insertion deep into the trachea; it only needs to reach the pharyngeal cavity and arrive at the upper end of the esophagus. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The exhaled gas that enters through the laryngeal mask airway is directed towards the glottis, thus also fulfilling the function of an artificial airway. As for the other end of the laryngeal mask being connected to a face mask, it acts as a sealing ring around the larynx, ensuring tight closure around the airway for more effective ventilation, which is a unique design characteristic of the laryngeal mask.

Due to the shorter design of the laryngeal mask tube towards the oropharyngeal airway, in clinical practice we can boldly opt for blind insertion, unlike tracheal intubation which risks mistakenly entering the esophagus instead of the trachea if blindly inserted.

The newborn in front of us is too small, with a full-term weight of only around six pounds. Trying tracheal intubation with a laryngoscope would understandably be difficult. During the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation process, considering intubation in the trachea becomes even more complex. It sounds like if an artificial airway needs to be established, trying the laryngeal mask is feasible.

Lin Hao asked, "Yingying, what do you think? If you think it’s doable, we’ll immediately go get the laryngeal mask. If it’s not on the ambulance, we’ll run to the hospital for it."

Perhaps Student Lin just went to rummage through the ambulance, aware that it might not have a laryngeal mask.

Xie Wanying did not immediately respond to her classmate, with her elegant brows furrowed she stayed deeply absorbed in a certain thought process.

Knowing that once Student Xie gets fixated, her thoughts can’t be pulled back. Lin Hao reluctantly looked towards Song Xueling, wondering if the Beidu Talented Scholar agreed with their suggestion.

As somewhat expected, Song Xueling’s brown eyes seemed to be utterly speechless at the two guys beside him.

Thinking on your own to propose suggestions for others isn’t rambling. When coming up with solutions, make sure what you’re thinking is clinical common sense. If it is, then clinical doctors would have thought of it, not needing students to point it out. This is also why many clinical physician teachers remain silent when hearing students babbling suggestions, because they had already considered those opinions long ago.