Implementing a smaller-volume adult ventilation bag: Is the juice worth the squeeze?

A bag-valve device, used routinely to ventilate 350,000 U.S. adults each year who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), is well-suited to the prehospital setting: positive pressure ventilation is delivered manually without the need for electricity or compressed oxygen, as the bag is self-inflating.1 The amount of gas displaced from the bag with each squeeze represents the delivered tidal volume. In fact, a standard bag-valve device today is nearly identical in size to the original self-inflating bag invented nearly 70 years ago by the Danish anesthesiologist, Dr.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research