Complications of using manual ambu bag/bag valve mask/artificial resuscitation bag
Complications of using manual ambu bag/bag valve mask/artificial resuscitation bag
1. Easy to hyperventilate patients and limited ability to gauge tidal volumes
2. Unable to gauge lung compliance (cf. a ventilator or Water’s circuit)3. Poor seal is common if one-handed CE grip is used
4. Gastric distension
5. Aspiration
6. Claustrophobia
7. Exhaled secretions and moisture can result in exhalation valve dysfunction and increased resistance to expiration
8. Risk of barotrauma if pop off valve close as unable to feel lung compliance with self-inflating bags
9. If high free gas flows are not used high FiO2 will not be achieved
10.Equipment failure (e.g. due to incorrect assembly)
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