Ambu Bag and Foot Suction

Ambu Bag and Foot Suction

Cross Posted: Timeline; Patient Care Equipment
Submitter/Author: photos Fred Swihart

Ambu Bag and Foot Suction 

    The Ambu Resuscitation kit was introduced in the late 1960’s and (at the time) offered everything you would need for resuscitation. It included the Ambu Bag (BVM) and a foot operated portable suction unit.

    This pictures shows one of the early Ambu bags that was foam filled and as the bag got older, or was used a lot, it was found that the foam would deteriorate and be forced into the lungs with the air as you squeezed the bag. This problem was corrected in 1972 with a new and improved bag and valve that is still in use today.

    The foot suction was one of the earliest manual systems, but only performed well with energetic, full foot compressions provided by a second rescuer.

 

 

Keywords: Ambu, Suction, BVM, resuscitator

Last Revision Date: 5/19/11 - 5:38 PM

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Report AbusePosted by ghettomedic on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:30 AM Pacific
I remember doing a transfer call out of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia going to Terrance Heights Hospital in Queens, NYC on Christmas Eve 1974. The cadillac ambulance we were in broke down on the way to get the patient along the NJ Turnpike. So they sent us a converted van type ambulance with three K tanks strapped together on the floor for oxygen and that Ambu step up with foot pump suction for a patient s/p cardiac surgery with a trach. It was a very long ride back! Those were the days.

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