Mask Ventilation Grip: A Life-Saving Innovation

Efficient and successful bag-mask ventilation (BMV) is an essential skill that can save a patient's life when seconds count. Ventilation is used by practitioners in a multitude of areas, including perioperative areas (specifically the operating room [OR] during induction of general anesthesia and extubation), intensive care units, and emergency departments, as well as by rapid response and code blue teams on the wards and by emergency medical services (EMS) first responders for out-of-hospital resuscitation efforts. BMV is a skill that requires extensive training and repetition-based practice to perform properly.1,