Get daily news updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailThree accident and emergency patients died after their portable oxygen tanks ran out, it has emerged. The patients were using the breathing equipment at Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent between May 2017 and February 2018. It's reported that the tanks were not fitted with alarms to warn when oxygen was about to run out. However, University Hospitals North Midlands NHS Trust said the deaths were not a direct result of a lack of oxygen. After the later incidents, the Trust had strengthened guidance of the use of oxygen tanks during busy periods, and bought cylinders equipped with alarms.

Source: Daily Mirror February 01, 2019 21:45 UTC