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ProTrainings - Bag Valve Mask

BAG VALVE MASK

  • If a bag valve is available attach the bag-valve mask to a source of oxygen set at 12-15 L/min. If no oxygen is available remove the residual bag reservoir at the end of the bag-valve mask and use room air.

  • Using the '“C-E” method for sealing the bag valve mask to the patient’s face, prepare to ventilate the patient. Please note that if for any reason the bag valve ventilations are ineffective, revert to mouth-to-mask or face shield delivery method for rescue breaths.

  • Ensure that thumb and forefinger are sealing the mask at the face of the patient. With middle, ring, pinky fingers, grab the mandible (jaw) of the patient and pull the patients face into the mask seal. If the mask is sealed well, there should be minimum to no air leakage on ventilation. Squeeze the bag fully so that the patient’s chest rises. When the chest rises stop squeezing the bag so to avoid over-inflation which may force the air into the stomach.

  • Ventilate at 1 breath every 6 seconds for an adult and 1 breath every 2-3 seconds for a child or infant, to perform rescue breathing. If an advanced airway is in place, perform 1 breath every 6-8 seconds. Take care not to hyperventilate the patient,

  • A proper size mask that fits the patient needs to be used. In other words, an infant size mask would be used on an infant and an adult size mask would be used on an adult. The mask covers the mouth and nose, and needs to create a seal that does not allow air to escape around the edges of the mask.

BAG VALVE MASK

  • If a bag valve is available attach the bag-valve mask to a source of oxygen set at 12-15 L/min. If no oxygen is available remove the residual bag reservoir at the end of the bag-valve mask and use room air.

  • Using the '“C-E” method for sealing the bag valve mask to the patient’s face, prepare to ventilate the patient. Please note that if for any reason the bag valve ventilations are ineffective, revert to mouth-to-mask or face shield delivery method for rescue breaths.

  • Ensure that thumb and forefinger are sealing the mask at the face of the patient. With middle, ring, pinky fingers, grab the mandible (jaw) of the patient and pull the patients face into the mask seal. If the mask is sealed well, there should be minimum to no air leakage on ventilation. Squeeze the bag fully so that the patient’s chest rises. When the chest rises stop squeezing the bag so to avoid over-inflation which may force the air into the stomach.

  • Ventilate at 1 breath every 6 seconds for an adult and 1 breath every 2-3 seconds for a child or infant, to perform rescue breathing. If an advanced airway is in place, perform 1 breath every 6-8 seconds. Take care not to hyperventilate the patient,

  • A proper size mask that fits the patient needs to be used. In other words, an infant size mask would be used on an infant and an adult size mask would be used on an adult. The mask covers the mouth and nose, and needs to create a seal that does not allow air to escape around the edges of the mask.