Code called. Up the stairs. Into the room. Mask ventilate him? Intubate him? He has no pharynx. No larynx. There’s just a blunt-ending oral cavity. I am confused. I cannot help. The patient is Elmo, from Sesame Street. I wake. I’m breathless. My roles as a mom and an anesthesiologist having collided in my sleep.
Code Sesame, Literature by Emily E. Hagn, MD
Emily E. Hagn, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
Emily enjoys the daily journey of practicing medicine and working in academics. She loves interacting with people whether they are patients, colleagues, family, friends, or strangers. She likes dirt: biking on it, running on it, camping on it. She has always been a math/science person. She is just now starting to dabble in the arts.
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