Patent ID: 8443804

Claim:
A manual resuscitation bag assembly comprising: (a) a manually compressible resuscitation bag comprising an enclosed interior chamber having a gas port at a proximal end of the interior chamber, wherein said resuscitation bag is compressible to exhaust a volume of air in response to compression of an end of said bag; (b) an axially movable volume adjustment assembly positioned in said interior chamber comprising a follower assembly including a bag compression stop member and a follower device rigidly secured thereto and extending proximally therefrom; (c) an adjustable volume control member secured at or adjacent to the proximal end of said resuscitation bag and a traction assembly cooperating therewith and configured to contact and force movement of said follower assembly in response to adjustment of said volume control member; and (d) a gas pipe communicating with said interior chamber via said gas port and configured to direct a volume of air from said resuscitation bag in response to compression to the resuscitation bag.