After placing the endotracheal tube and inflating the cuff, you ask your partner to begin bag-valve mask ventilations while you confirm placement. You see unequal chest rise and fall and auscultate clear breath sounds on the right, but no sounds over the left side of the chest or the epigastrum. Your next action should be to

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After placing the endotracheal tube and inflating the cuff, you ask your partner to begin bag-valve mask ventilations while you confirm placement. You see unequal chest rise and fall and auscultate clear breath sounds on the right, but no sounds over the left side of the chest or the epigastrum. Your next action should be to






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