These include a small ultrasound probe that can be used to scan for internal injuries such as fluid in the abdomen or internal bleeding, and a video laryngoscope, which can be used to view and open a patient's airway by inserting a tube a tricky and potentially dangerous procedure.

ECONOMIST: Emergency medicine

They pulled off her clothes and pumped her chest, put a tube in her airway and forced oxygen into her lungs, and tried to see if they could shock her heart back.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

"The only reason we keep that breathing tube in is to protect her airway so that she doesn't have complications like pneumonia, " he told reporters.

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