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>>10642917
Don't ever feel bad about failed intubations as a learner, anon.

If you succeeded on your very first try, it most likely wouldn't have been "your" success. It'd have meant your attending had positioned the patient and set you up perfectly behind the scenes. Being allowed to fail intubation is a gift - it means your attending is actually having YOU learn the technique behind intubation. It's actually way easier for an attending to set you up for success and pat you on the back, than to step back and allow you to make mistakes you need to really learn it.

It'll take about a dozen before you'll start to get the hang of it. Good luck, let us know how it goes.

>>10642766
Hopefully you'll get some healthy peds as well. Aside from the moments of true terror, peds anesthesia can have moments of real joy, especially if you like playing with the kiddos during induction.

or when you realize your patients aren't morbidly obese 80 year olds with rotten dentures.