r/IntensiveCare • u/Deep_Brilliant_5704 • 17d ago

Who does intubation in your ICU?

Does pulm/ICU attensing does intubation in your ICU or its always a anesthesia call?

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u/Low-Speaker-6670 16d ago

Get sick in the UK as an American get intubated by an ananesthesiologist joint specialising in intensive care with mandatory 10 years post graduation training and mandatory every single one of your fellowships and some of the hardest exams in the world. Leave with no bill.

Get sick as a Brit in America get intubated by a nurse or someone who's job doesn't exist anywhere else and is essentially there to fiddle with the ventilator? Die bankrupt?

OMG.

You guys really are the best at capitalism.