Question - Hospital terminology

[DTCwordfan]

I need a Boxie, Sqad or someone with hospital experience.

What is the term for those balloons in an operation that go in and out during an operation, helping, I guess, to control and regulate a patients breathing.

It's just for some writing I am doing and I want to use it as a metaphor.

Many thanks.....

[Philtaz]

Ventilator.

[DTCwordfan]

thanks Phil, brain freeze this morning......!

[lcg]

a ventilator? x

[rowanwitch]

The whole machine is a type of ventilator on an anesthetic machine you have a bellows to pump the gas you also have a separate black rugby ball shaped bag for hand ventilation

[DTCwordfan]

thanks all....

[Sqad]

Anaesthetic bag OR reservoir bag......but for your writings (I guess) the above descriptions are the most appropriate.

[abstibus]

My son calls himself a bagman (he's an anaesthetist). He gets some funny looks at parties.

[JonnyBoy12]

This is also called a larangial mask, I think!

[rowanwitch]

The flat black rubber bags are rebreathe bags

A laryngeal mask is a thing shaped a bit like anear on the end of a plastic tube that goes down a patients trachea and sits just above the larynx the 'ear bit is inflated to make a tighter seal to make ventilation easier. soometimes used in short duration surgery as well rather than fully intubate the patient