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You are in the corridor outside many operating rooms when a nurse sticks her head out of one of the operating rooms and shouts: “We need you now.” You run into the room. The room is very dark as a knee arthroscopy is taking place. The patient, you are told, is a 25-year-old healthy male football player, who has suddenly crashed. You can see that he is being ventilated with an endotracheal tube (ETT). All eyes are on the monitors. The vital signs are as follows; HR 140 bpm, BP and oxygen saturation are nonrecordable. There is no end-tidal CO2, but a normal looking airway pressure wave form.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2012). Case 37: A “Code Blue”. In: Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1179-7_37
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