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Ambu bag

 
(ăm'byū)

A trademark used for a self-reinflating bag used during resuscitation.

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A flexible reservoir bag connected by tubing and a non-rebreathing valve to a face mask or endotracheal tube and used for artificial ventilation. It is self-inflating with room air or from an oxygen source.

Ambu bag. By permission from Hall L, Clarke KW, Trim C, Veterinary Anaesthesia, Saunders, 2000
 
 

 

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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company Read more
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition. Copyright © 2007 by D.C. Blood, V.P. Studdert and C.C. Gay, Elsevier. All rights reserved.  Read more

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