#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - Are We Actually Delivering Good Bag Mask Ventilation in the Delivery Room?

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nathan Sundgren, neonatologist and NRP educator at Texas Children's Hospital, joins Ben to discuss one of the most deceptively difficult skills in neonatal resuscitation — effective bag mask ventilation. He shares findings from a fellowship training study showing that respiratory function monitor feedback improves ventilation technique equally well across all three device types, and tackles the harder question of why that same technology has yet to show clinical benefit in the delivery room — pointing to human factors, cognitive overload, and the need for a dedicated respiratory coach role rather than a better device alone. He also reflects on the evolution of team leadership in neonatal resuscitation, why doing a procedure and leading a team simultaneously is impossible, and where people can find his free educational content on YouTube at Texan Neo-Ed. Support the show As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

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#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - Are We Actually Delivering Good Bag Mask Ventilation in the Delivery Room? is an episode from The Incubator by Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau.

This episode is 13:41 long.

This episode was published on Apr 27, 2026.

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