A further problem with bag-valve mask ventilation can be an excessive ventilation rate with too many breaths per minute. This hyperventilation may have negative effects on the patient’s ...

BMV uses bag valve masks, or Ambu bags, to supply a person with oxygen. A bag valve mask is a handheld tool that a medical professional can use to pump oxygen into a person’s lungs.

Rescuers have to worry about airway patency, mask seal, and also attaining the right volume, rate and pressure. Deliver too much air too fast, and you risk hyperventilation, which can trigger a ...

Chest compressions alone do not generate sufficient tidal volume for adequate gas exchange. 8–10 Therefore, professional responders usually give some form of rescue ventilation during CPR, often using ...

Open-source ventilators (OSVs) are considered as an immediate response for the shortages of ventilator equipment in hospitals due to the ongoing global pandemic caused by the Coronavirus disease 2019 ...