TOTWTYTR has a brief post pointing out a problem demonstrated by some people who just never learned just recently learned one important lesson about airway management. EMS Tip Of The Day . I am sure that TOTWTYTR found a memorable way to explain this concept to them. Perhaps we should come up with a better way to provide EMS students with a basic EMS understanding of how not to kill patients. Maybe the worst student in the class could volunteer to communicate an understanding of the problems that come from the esophagus and trachea being so close together. This. Plus this. In the supine position. Just might make it clear in a way that a textbook might not. Maybe. .

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