While working in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU),you read in your patient's chart that the patient had received atropine before endotracheal intubation.A respiratory therapy student asks you why.You explain it was given for the following reason:

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Anticholinergic medications are used extensively as mucoregulatory medications.Atropine is routinely given perioperatively to prevent laryngospasm and to decrease mucus secretion associated with endotracheal intubation.

While Working in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU),you Read