Palliative care specialist Christian Sinclair explains some misconceptions:
There are times when extubating a patient can cause more distress – an obstructed airway, a high risk for hemorrhagic bleed, inability to control tachypnea with medications, feel free to add others. But in my palliative care reading and experience, leaving a patient intubated is the exception, and not the rule.
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