Noun
bag valve mask (plural bag valve masks)
- (medicine) A bag used to resuscitate a patient by supplying air or oxygen directly to the trachea and into the lungs.
- BVM abbreviation
- ambu bag, ambubag, Ambu bag (trademark genericization of "Ambu", the initial manufacturer)
- artificial manual breathing unit / AMBU / ambu (genericization of the trademark Artificial Manual Breathing Unit)
- Ambu resuscitator, ambu resuscitator
- manual resuscitator
- self-inflating bag
- bag (colloquial)
- French: ballon autoremplisseur à valve unidirectionnelle, BAVU
- Italian: pallone auto-espandibile, pallone di AMBU, AMBU
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