Quality of Bag-Mask Ventilation for Children Before Intubation: Single-Center PICU Pilot Observational Study, 2019–2022

Key Points

• The aim is to evaluate the quality of bag-mask ventilation (BMV) provided to children prior to tracheal intubation in the PICU.
• Conducted a single-center observational study over three years
• Focused on BMV delivered to children before intubation
• Evaluated the quality of breaths and associated airway outcomes
• Majority of BMV breaths were of low quality
• Lower quality breaths were more frequent in younger children
• Low-quality BMV was linked to increased odds of adverse airway outcomes