What is tiny BVM port for?

[mycrofft]

A cohort asked me what it was for and I couldn't say. It resembled the tip of a glue dispenser, a little nipple with a red plastic cap over it, the cap fastened to the nipple with a leash. It leads immediately into the valve (not the mask per se) assembly downstream from the one way valve. I cannot find it in an online picture right now, and at least Laerdal's manuals don't show it. Too small to admit a nebulizer mist, no structure to create a mist. It doesn't inflate the cuff. Resembles the nipple on some pocket masks to optimistically addf more oxygen, but, if so, why not just add O2 at the proper end?

 

[bigbaldguy]

If it goes straight into the valve could it be to blow the valve out if it gets goop in it?

 

[Bosco836]

A cohort asked me what it was for and I couldn't say. It resembled the tip of a glue dispenser, a little nipple with a red plastic cap over it, the cap fastened to the nipple with a leash. It leads immediately into the valve (not the mask per se) assembly downstream from the one way valve. I cannot find it in an online picture right now, and at least Laerdal's manuals don't show it. Too small to admit a nebulizer mist, no structure to create a mist. It doesn't inflate the cuff. Resembles the nipple on some pocket masks to optimistically addf more oxygen, but, if so, why not just add O2 at the proper end?

http://steroplast.co.uk/assets/products/images/358/large_ambu.jpg?1315566173 - Sort of like the red plastic cap seen here right above the mask?

 

[rwik123]

Its a medication port. So you can deliver them without disconnecting the BVM from the et tube.

 

[bigbaldguy]

Swing and a miss for bbg lol

I can't wait till somebody asks me this on the truck so I can pretend I knew it all along.

 

[mycrofft]

OK, but....

http://steroplast.co.uk/assets/products/images/358/large_ambu.jpg?1315566173
Yes, that one the little one.

So you just schpritz it in, presumably on the inflation (squeeze), and it doesn't mater that 80% winds up on the pt's face? Or is it just for when the BV (no M) is hooked up to a trachea tube or such?

 

[rwik123]

http://steroplast.co.uk/assets/products/images/358/large_ambu.jpg?1315566173
Yes, that one the little one.

So you just schpritz it in, presumably on the inflation (squeeze), and it doesn't mater that 80% winds up on the pt's face? Or is it just for when the BV (no M) is hooked up to a trachea tube or such?

just when the patient is tubed.

 

[mycrofft]

OK, makes sense. Still seems like it wastes a lot of med versus what makes it on board.

 

[Medic Tim]

OK, makes sense. Still seems like it wastes a lot of med versus what makes it on board.

we use double the standard dose when using the port on the BVM

 

[DrankTheKoolaid]

re

With the mainstream use of IO, pretty much makes the port obsolete as the uptake and distribution of medications VIA tube is so unpredictable.

 

[mycrofft]

Yeah, sounds sloppy. First trans-tracheal injection I saw was epi right into the cuff of the trachea tube. Pt was dead anyway.