Bag valve masks come in different sizes to fit infants, children, and adults.

A cardiac monitor was in place, and a bag valve mask was over his face.

This may be able to provide higher tidal volumes than a Bag Valve Mask.

They may also carry additional airway management equipment (such as airways or bag valve masks) and drugs appropriate to their skill level.

Positive-pressure ventilation using a bag valve mask device.

Patients who are unable to breathe on their own would require an active breathing device, such as a bag valve mask or endotracheal tube.

As suggested by its name, the pocket mask benefits from a somewhat easier portability when compared to the bag valve mask.

- Mechanical ventilation with devices (bag valve mask)

While modern ventilators are computerized machines, patients can be ventilated with a bag valve mask, a simple hand-operated machine.

While a pocket mask is not as efficient as a bag valve mask, it does have its advantages when only one rescuer is available.

This is a daunting physical prospect for a single individual, but use of a bag valve mask respirator reduces fatigue to sustainable levels until help can arrive.

If a Bag Valve Mask or mechanical respirator is used with an oxygen supply, this rises to 99% oxygen.

Although the crew had been informed that the casualty had "breathing difficulty" the only equipment that they took into the custody suite was a bag valve mask.

The clinician that performs RSI must be skilled in tracheal intubation and also in bag valve mask ventilation.

The tube is then secured to the face or neck and connected to a T-piece, anesthesia breathing circuit, bag valve mask device, or a mechanical ventilator.

Conversely, blood vessels constrict when carbon dioxide levels are below normal, so hyperventilating a patient with a ventilator or bag valve mask can temporarily reduce ICP.

This position as first to market has led to the name Ambu becoming a generic trademark, with bag valve masks from any manufacturer being referred to as 'ambu bags'.

Bag valve mask (BVM) - This is a simple device manually operated by the rescuer, which involves squeezing a bag to expel air into the patient.

There are manual ventilators such as Bag valve masks and anesthesia bags require the user to hold the ventilator to the face or to an artificial airway and maintain breaths with their hands.

He grabbed a bag valve mask, a mask attached to a hand pump that can deliver oxygen to the lungs, and rushed downstairs and began performing CPR on Ms. Sutton.

Individuals with reduced breathing may be given supplemental oxygen, while individuals who are not breathing can be ventilated with bag valve mask ventilation or by mechanical ventilation with a respirator.

If the patient is breathing less than 8 times/minute or shallow more than 35/minutes, the patient then needs somebody to breathe for him using a [bag valve mask] attached to a high flow oxygen source.

Emergency medical technician: The procedures and skills allowed at this level are generally non-invasive such as bleeding control, positive pressure ventilation with a bag valve mask, supplemental oxygen administration, and splinting (including full spinal immobilization).

There are three basic types: a manual version (also known as a bag valve mask) consisting of a mask and a large hand-squeezed plastic bulb using ambient air, or with supplemental oxygen from a high-pressure tank.

The bag valve mask concept was developed in 1953 by the German engineer, Dr. Holger Hesse, and his partner, Danish anaesthetist Henning Ruben, following their initial work on a suction pump.

A manual resuscitator should be used on a victim only in an environment where the air is unquestionably safe to breathe.

One of the residents immediately took over the Ambu bag from the nurse.

Another nurse wheeled over a bottle of oxygen and connected it to the Ambu bag.

Resting his stethoscope on the patient's chest and telling Peter to hold up for a second, he compressed the ambu bag.

After connecting the Ambu bag, he began to inflate Helen's lungs to near capacity.

The Ambu bag resuscitator revolutionized possibility of providing artificial respiration.

Richard took on the job of ventilating Kathleen with an Ambu bag as they made the trip through the hallways.

The other thrust a curved green airway into Peter's mouth, then began to squeeze oxygen into his lungs with an ambu bag.

Murray should have tried to arouse Jackson, placed an ambu bag over his mouth, cleared the airway, called 911 and administered flumazenil.

Then he inserted the laryngoscope, an endotracheal tube, and attached an ambu bag, which he connected to the wall oxygen source.

"I would certainly have means for ventilation, means of ventilation could be an ambu bag and a mask, not necessarily other respiratory equipment".

One produced an Ambu bag and began respiring Laurie, carefully pacing herself with Jack's compressions.

At the patient's head, an anesthetist was ventilating him with an ambu bag, coordinating her efforts with Dr. Thomas.

The anesthesiologist deftly inserted an endotracheal tube and used an Ambu bag to inflate Gloria's lungs.

They named their resuscitator Ambu bag, and then formed their own company, also called Ambu, to manufacture and market it, starting in 1956.

He'A, placed an endotracheal tube into Cedric's trachea and was ventilating him with oxygen by compressing the Ambu bag.

With the deftness of years he inserted an endotracheal tube, inflated its air-sealing cuff, then attached it to the ambu bag in lieu of the mask.

At the head of the bed, the mountainous anesthesiologist stood implacably squeezing the Ambu bag, which seemed like little more than a pliant black softball in his thick hands.

This position as first to market has led to the name Ambu becoming a generic trademark, with bag valve masks from any manufacturer being referred to as 'ambu bags'.

For the next forty hours, Silver, Hunt, and Litch took turns pumping oxygen into Ngawang's lungs with the ambu bag, squeezing it by hand twenty times each minute.

He couldn't speak because of the tube in his throat, and he breathed thanks to a respiratory technician who kept ventilating his lungs with an Ambu bag, twelve squeezes to the minute.

For the second time that day, Janet started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the anesthesiologist yelled for someone to get an endotracheal tube and an Ambu bag as soon as they got to the first floor.

The German engineer Dr. Holger Hesse, and his partner, Danish anaesthetist, Henning Ruben invented in 1956, the world's first non-electric, self-inflating resuscitator known as the Ambu bag.

A bag valve mask, abbreviated to BVM and sometimes known by the proprietary name Ambu bag, is a hand-held device used to provide positive pressure ventilation to a patient who is not breathing or who is breathing inadequately.

Confronting an unknown poison, David's approach was shotgun, a fresh intravenous solution opened wide to dilute the toxin and support Christine's blood pressure, an oral airway and several breaths from an Ambu bag to maintain ventilation, bicarbonate to counteract lactic acid buildup.

Parting the puffy tissues with the laryngoscope, he slid the endotracheal tube through the V of her cords and attached an Ambu bag, pumping hard and sending squeeze after squeeze of oxygen into her lungs until she recovered enough from the injections to breathe on her own.