While transporting an intubated 8-year-old boy, he suddenly jerks his head and becomes cyanotic shortly thereafter. His oxygen saturation and capnometry readings are both falling, and he is becoming bradycardic. You attempt to auscultate breath sounds, but are unable to hear because of the drone of the engine. What has MOST likely happened?
A) Tension pneumothorax
B) Inadvertent extubation
C) Obstruction of the tube
D) Right mainstem intubation
Answer: B) Inadvertent extubation
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