This section covers evaluating respiratory distress, indications for intubation, assisting with intubation and securing the endotracheal tube.

Upon completion of this section, the participant will:

1. Understand basic evaluation of neonatal respiratory distress.

2. Understand indications for positive pressure ventilation with bag and mask or endotracheal intubation.

3. Understand the role of the assistant during intubation and how to provide support to the person performing intubation.

4. Know how to correctly secure an oral endotracheal tube.

5. Know how to calculate the correct placement of endotracheal tubes and identify correctly and incorrectly placed endotracheal tubes on x-ray.

6. Be able to identify a blood gas as normal, respiratory, metabolic or mixed acidosis and whether compensation has occurred.

7. Know how to identify a pneumothorax and how to emergently evacuate a pneumothorax.