Winthrop Officer Guy Prather is honored for saving a man’s life while off-duty in Spain. He performed CPR on a hiker in cardiac arrest, later reuniting with the man.

The company is being recognized for two of its most recent advancements: the i-gel Plus Resus Pack and the VT Select BVM (bag valve mask), which help airway management and resuscitation in ...

TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center recently donated twenty bag valve masks (BVMs) to the police department. The move came after Nolensville police said they saw seen an uptick in medical 911 calls.

RVS’s product, nicknamed “Spiritus,” is a novel technology that has been in development since 2017 and is designed to attach to any standard bag-valve mask used when someone stops breathing, such as ...

WHY IS MANUAL VENTILATION DIFFICULT? “In only 3 out of 106 cases all guideline-relevant ventilation parameters were met with bag-valve mask ventilation during CPR.” 2 Bag-valve mask ...

The FDA is getting the word out on an ongoing recall of millions of hand-powered bag valve masks, which may not deliver enough oxygen to a patient in need of resuscitation. The disposable ...

is that of a “bantay” (i.e., companion or “watcher”) pumping an “ambu-bag” (a bag valve mask) to an intubated, critically ill patient in the wards. What this means is that, since the patients cannot ...

Resuscitation guidelines recommend pauses after every 30 chest compressions to deliver ventilations. The effectiveness of bag-valve-mask ventilation delivered during the pause in chest compressions is ...