Six Hours of Manual Ventilation With a Bag-Valve-Mask Device Is Feasible and Clinically Consistent

Manual ventilation of intubated patients is a common intervention. It requires skill as well as physical effort and is typically restricted to brief periods. Prolonged manual ventilation may be unavoidable in some scenarios, for example, extreme mass casualty incidents. The present study tested whether nurses are capable of appropriately manually ventilating patients for 6 hours.Volunteers performed ventilation on an electronic simulator for 6...