Indications for Intubation

The following are the general indications for intubation and mechanical ventilation:

1. To breathe for a patient during surgery when anesthetics are used
2. Neurological deficit (Narcosis, drug overdose, spinal cord injury, Grullain-Barre, 
3. Muscular deficit ( myasthenia gravis, poliomyelitis, malnutrition, )
4. Protect the airway from aspiration (as in a drug overdose, lack of gag reflex).
5. Relieve Airway obstruction (laryngeal edema, epiglottitis, bronchospasm, etc.)

General discussion will come later.