This document specifies requirements for user-powered resuscitators intended for use with all age groups and which are intended to provide lung ventilation to patients whose breathing is inadequate. User-powered resuscitators are designated according to ideal body mass range.


Example user-powered resuscitators include:


—    self-inflating bag resuscitators intended to be squeezed by the user’s hand and refilled by elastic recoil; and


NOTE 1    Self-inflating bag resuscitators are generally transit-operable and can be used in a wide range of environmental and emergency situations.