verb
General Slang
Bagging
· verb · medical
Manually pumping air into a patient's lungs with a handheld Ambu bag.
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Hospital shorthand for manually ventilating a patient by squeezing a bag-valve-mask (Ambu bag) over their face or ET tube. Done when someone's not breathing for themselves and you need to push oxygen in until a vent's hooked up or they come back. Rhythmic, two-handed, life-or-death.
“She coded in the lift, so I started bagging her while the porter sprinted for the crash team.”
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Bagging In A Sentence
She coded in the lift, so I started bagging her while the porter sprinted for the crash team.
Origin & Usage
From the Ambu bag (the squeezable resuscitation bag invented in 1953 by Henning Ruben).
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