Bag Valve Masks to Replace Ventilators For COVID-19 Patients as New York City Plans for Critical Point

A Bag Valve Mask (Ambu Bag/BVM) is a crucial bit of CPR hardware in proficient rescuer preparation. As a bit of cutting edge clinical hardware, this gadget is expected for use by gifted work force explicitly prepared and guaranteed in its utilization.


Bag Valve Mask (BVM) ventilation is a basic crisis expertise, being proposed by New York City Government Andrew Cuomo March 28th, 2020 as a last resort should the Healthcare disaster reach an apex point.


This essential respiratory route strategy takes into consideration oxygenation and ventilation of patients until a progressively authoritative respiratory rescue route can be set up and in situations where endotracheal intubation or other conclusive control of the respiratory route is beyond the realm of imagination. For the crisis clinical specialist, fundamental BVM ventilation is regularly the main alternative for airway route management.

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