June 18, 2010

Medical Term of the Day: "Extubate"

This lesson's a short one.

Today, Ayden was extubated.  This is a fancy term for "having a breathing tube taken out."  We like extubation.  Extubation is our friend.

The opposite of extubate is intubate.  As you might guess, this is a fancy term for "having a breathing tube put in."  We don't like intubation and, as I have mentioned, neither does Ayden.  Hopefully, Ayden will do well with his CPAP and we won't have to go back to intubation.

1 comment:

  1. Hooray! I continue to keep all three of you in my prayers. :)

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