The Bag-valve-device: its many production types and models are not clinically equal

The Bag-valve-device (BVD) (also known as a bag-valve mask (BVM), self-inflating bag (SIB), or AMBU ™ device) is the go-to device for in- and out-of-hospital airway managers, and it has been the device of choice since the 1950’s. Robust, simple, safe, we assume that all BVDs are equal, even though they can be produced by a wide range of companies and in many iterations. In this edition of Resu scitation, Richard and co-workers rock this assumption all the way to its roots. [1] They show that BVDs produced by different companies are simply not equal in their clinical usability !
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research