There is no dignity in suffering, and medicine is not martyrdom. Nobody should be Ambu-bagging a baby with recurrent apnea for six hours and calling it heroism. That is not standard care. That is waste, exhaustion, and predictable harm dressed up as virtue.
The standard is simple: when apnea is recurrent and you cannot stabilize the child on conservative measures, you intubate, you mechanically ventilate, you secure the airway, and you do your actual job not perform a six-hour manual-resuscitation circus while the unit runs on vibes and prayer.
Six hours of Ambu bagging is total rubbish because:
- It burns out the doctor who should be thinking, not pumping a bag until their arms fail.
- It abandons other neonates who also need attention one baby gets a marathon, the rest get neglect.
- It does not fix recurrent apnea; it delays definitive management.
- The outcome youโre gambling with isnโt โgrateful parents on Twitterโ itโs hypoxic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and a lifetime of disability because oxygenation was treated like a stamina contest.
No junior doctor will tell you six hours of Ambu bagging was a good experience. Itโs a bitter, traumatic experience nobody should have to witness or repeat. Praising it doesnโt elevate medicine it normalizes dysfunction and tells owners of broken units: โKeep understaffing, keep missing ventilators, keep praising manual heroics weโll clap instead of fix.โ
Stop applauding exhaustion.
Stop romanticizing what should never happen in a functional neonatology unit.
Call the owners of that unit facility managers, hospital administration, state health leadership to equip, staff, and protocolize: working ventilators, trained personnel, and clear escalation to intubation and mechanical ventilation on time, not after six hours of manual bagging for likes and pity posts.
Praising a doctor who Ambu-bagged for six hours isnโt respect. Itโs complicity in a trash system that leaves no room for improvement because everyoneโs too busy clapping martyr theatre instead of demanding dignified, standard neonatal care.
Do the needful. Intubate. Ventilate. Fix the unit. Or shut the unit.
Anything else is noise and the baby pays the price.
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