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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Aug 9;63(1):6–12.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.07.014

Table 3.

Median difference in the percentage of total possible expired tidal volume between each pair of 3 bag-valve-mask hand-sealing techniques.

Comparisons Median Difference, % 95% CI
All 5 min
1H–2H* −47 −62 to −34
1H–m2H* −56 −65 to −29
2H–m2H −0 −2 to 2
First 4 min
1H–2H* −45 −59 to −33
1H–m2H* −54 −65 to −28
2H–m2H −1 −2 to 1
First 3 min
1H–2H* −47 −60 to −32
1H–m2H* −52 −67 to −28
2H–m2H −1 −2 to 2
First 2 min
1H–2H* −47 −59 to −30
1H–m2H* −51 −68 to −28
2H–m2H −0 −2 to 1
First 1 min
1H–2H* −46 −59 to −25
1H–m2H* −53 −66 to −20
2H–m2H −1 −4 to 2

1H, 1-Handed BVM technique; 2H, 2-handed BVM technique; m2H, modified 2-handed BVM technique.

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One subject was missing data on 1-handed BVM because of a failure in the recording instrument transmitting data during the session; thus, only 51 subjects were analyzed.