Bag mask ventilation (BMV) is a method for providing a person with immediate ventilation in an emergency. BMV involves a medical professional manually pumping oxygen into a person’s lungs using a self ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla — A local company is working on an invention that it hopes will put a big dent in the shortage of ventilation devices around the nation. AtmosHome is a startup company in Brooksville ...

Preoxygenation with a bag-valve-mask device did not reduce the risk for hypoxemia compared with preoxygenation with a face mask during emergency tracheal intubation in the emergency department (ED) or ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are looking to help address a shortage of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating designs to turn inexpensive bag valve mask resuscitators ...

Arizona researchers compared the survival rates in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with positive-pressure ventilation (bag-valve mask) vs. passive oxygen flow. Survival was higher ...

In a randomized trial of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), bag-mask ventilation (BMV) was associated with the same rate of 28-day functional survival as seen with endotracheal ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication during tracheal intubation of critically ill adults and may increase the risk of cardiac arrest and death. Whether positive-pressure ventilation with a ...

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad Director Prof BS Murty has called upon on the Government of India to consider adopting 'bag valve mask' as an alternative to meet any surge in demand for ...

Background Hypoxemia is the most common complication during tracheal intubation of critically ill adults and may increase the risk of cardiac arrest and death. Whether positive-pressure ventilation ...