verb
- removing a tube, especially a breathing tube, from a patient’s body
Usage: medical
Examples
- The doctor is extubating the patient after surgery.
- Extubating too early can cause breathing complications.
- The medical team prepared for extubating the unconscious patient.
- She specialized in intubating and extubating patients in the ICU.
- The anesthesiologist began extubating once the patient was stable.
- Extubating requires careful monitoring of the patient’s vital signs.