Which technique is better 1 Hand E-C or 2 Hands V-E Technique for Bag Valve Mask BVM Ventilation?

If you are using 1 Hand E-C technique to ventilate your patients you are thus using a laymen or inferior technique. The one handed E-C technique was created to teach resuscitation techniques to lay rescuers (i.e.) non healthcare providers and this technique became popular due to AHA BLS courses which showcase this laymen/inferior technique.

[@sportstours24]

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[@ibrahimabuaqlain525]

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[@roland.j.ruttledge]

Fantastic, many thanks, Roland UK

[@criticalcareift]

Many thanks!

[@srinivasan4291]

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[@criticalcareift]

I don't think I am extraordinary, just showing proven techniques which are evidence based. Hopefully you will employ them in your practice! Thank you!

[@srinivasan4291]

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[@criticalcareift]

Thank you for watching, hopefully you will employ the techniques in your practice.

[@siulolovaomesake6778]

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[@JohnnyWishbone85]

On my BLS shifts, I've cannibalized the extension tube and short plastic cylinder from an LTV vent circuit to get some separation between the mask and the bag so I can safely ventilate someone while I'm strapped in for transport. This works best with a Laerdal, where you can keep the exhale valve at the mask to prevent the extension from creating excessive dead space. To my knowledge, it's not as simple to do this with an Ambu because you can't remove the valve from the bag, but even then, it's better than a kick in the teeth if the transport is short.
Of course, if I'm working with an RN, and we have to bag a patient, we just hook the ventilator up to the mask. 😁

[@criticalcareift]

If you worked with a medic that patient you were bagging could have been intubated and placed on the ventilator. That's beats working with an RN :)

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

@@criticalcareift -- Since we're CCT, it's usually the case that if a patient has an airway issue (or a *foreseeable* one) significant enough that tubing might be indicated, odds are the patient already has one, and if they don't, we'll just go ahead and ask the sending facility to do it for us.
If we are having to unexpectedly ventilate a patient, we'll place an I-Gel and consider diversion (usually not necessary), or we'll drop a nasal airway or two and put a PPV mask on them, and put them on SIMV or something like that. Just the other day, we had a guy who was probably given way more sedative than we were told, and was snoring up like crazy, but since he was still trying to breathe, we just put him on CPAP. No need to complicate things.
Several of the nurses I work with ARE medics, by the way.