You have orally intubated a patient. While your partner ventilates the patient with a bag-valve device, you assess for proper placement. Auscultation reveals sounds heard over the right chest and an absence of breath sounds over the left chest. Your best course of action would be to
(A) hyperventilate the patient and prepare the equipment necessary for a surgical cricothyrotomy.
(B) deflate the endotracheal tube cuff, withdraw the tube 2 cm and reevaluate breath sounds, and reinflate the cuff.
(C) deflate the endotracheal tube cuff, remove the endotracheal tube, and hyperventilate the patient with a bag-valve device.
(D) insert a large diameter needle into the fourth or fifth intercostal space, midaxillary line.
Answer: (B) deflate the endotracheal tube cuff, withdraw the tube 2 cm and reevaluate breath sounds, and reinflate the cuff.
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