• Respiratory care · Jul 2024

    Assessment of Ventilation Using Adult and Pediatric Manual Resuscitators in a Simulated Adult Patient.

    • Joshua M Justice, Arthur S Slutsky, Nathan Stanford, Christopher Isennock, Sameer Siddiqui, Hamza Zamir, J Richard Walker, and Mark F Brady.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee; and Department of Emergency Medicine, TriStar Centennial Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee ybn631@uthsc.edu.
    • Respir Care. 2024 Jul 24; 69 (8): 924930924-930.

    BackgroundThe bag-valve-mask (BVM) or manual resuscitator bag is used as a first-line technique to ventilate patients with respiratory failure. Volume-restricted manual resuscitator bags (eg, pediatric bags) have been suggested to minimize overventilation and associated complications. There are studies that both support and caution against the use of a pediatric resuscitator bag to ventilate an adult patient. In this study, we evaluated the ability of pre-hospital clinicians to adequately ventilate an adult manikin with both an adult- and pediatric-size manual resuscitator bag without the assistance of an advanced airway or airway adjunct device.MethodsThis study was conducted at an international conference in 2022. Conference attendees with pre-hospital health care experience were recruited to ventilate an adult manikin using a BVM for 1 min with both an adult and pediatric resuscitator bag, without the use of adjunct airway devices, while 6 ventilatory variables were collected or calculated: tidal volume (VT), breathing frequency, adequate breaths (VT > 150 mL), proportion of adequate breaths, peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), and estimated alveolar ventilation (EAV).ResultsA total of 208 participants completed the study. Ventilation with the adult-sized BVM delivered an average VT of 290.4 mL compared to 197.1 mL (P < .001) when using the pediatric BVM. PIP with the adult BVM was higher than with the pediatric BVM (10.6 cm H2O vs 8.6 cm H2O, P < .001). The median EAV with the adult bag (1,138.1 [interquartile range [IQR] 194.0-2,869.9] mL/min) was markedly greater than with the pediatric BVM (67.7 [IQR 0-467.3] mL/min, P < .001).ConclusionsBoth pediatric- and adult-sized BVM provided lower ventilation volumes than those recommended by professional guidelines for an adult. Ventilation with the pediatric BVM was significantly worse than with the adult bag when ventilating a simulated adult subject.Copyright © 2024 by Daedalus Enterprises.

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