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Absolutely, and I think you'd agree that therein lies the argument to limit its use by underqualified practitioners (like myself ).
Absolutely not..."qualified" can mean a lot of things (see above video) but there is no substitute for training and probably more importantly, experience.
I've seen more Charlie Foxtrot's than I care to count and I can say there is no error too egregious that can't be missed simply by wishing hard enough for it not to be there.
The doc on the phone in that scenario picked up on the esophageal tube. Remember how convinced the medic sounded that it was in the trachea? Makes me wonder if the folks in the back of that ambulance would have done anything different if they had some kind of ETCO2 indicator. Especially after blowing a bunch of gas into that kids stomach with the bag.