Inexperience and a lack of communication between nurses at a Hong Kong public hospital led to a patient ending up with a ventilation bag not hooked up to an oxygen cylinder, an investigation has concluded.
The man was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei on September 27 with severe acute pneumonia, and later developed respiratory failure.
He was connected to a ventilator for breathing and was transferred to intensive care the following night as his condition had not improved, a...
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