Jornal de pediatria
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Jornal de pediatria · May 2009
Peak pressure and tidal volume are affected by how the neonatal self-inflating bag is handled.
To evaluate how different ways of handling the neonatal self-inflating bag influences peak pressure and tidal volume. ⋯ The results indicate that most professionals delivered excessively high peak pressures and tidal volumes, which could increase the risk of barotrauma and volutrauma, especially when both hands were used to ventilate. On the other hand, a small number of professionals delivered insufficient pressure and volume for adequate lung expansion and ventilation. The delivery of inadequate ventilation was not dependent on profession.