What is the Oxylator?
"A mainly plastic device about the size of your fist with a incredibly quick magnetic valve.
It runs on pressurized wall or tank oxygen.
Only two main controls, a pressure setting knob and a manual inhalation/automatic mode button...
It Solves the 5 Problems of the BVM
- We give too many breaths
- Those breaths are at too high a pressure
- The breaths are given too rapidly
- We get no feedback on whether the breath went in or it was given against an obstructed airway
- In a spontaneously breathing patient, the BVM will give variable FiO2s depending on the exhalation port"
http://emcrit.org/podcasts/oxylator/