Helping Patients Breathe During Dangerous Procedure Prevents Life-Threatening Complications (VIDEO)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube. Now a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is showing that using bag-mask ventilation, squeezing air from a bag into the mouth for 60 seconds to help patients' breathing, improves outcomes and could potentially save lives.

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