Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!pdbain From: pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: hospital accidents Message-ID: <2223@wateng.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 11:11:11 EST Article-I.D.: wateng.2223 Posted: Fri Mar 29 11:11:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 00:27:26 EST References: <181@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 Summary: Near here, in Cambridge, Ontario, a man was killed when his oxygen was hooked up without a "T-piece", which allows air to enter the endotracheal tube and expired air to escape. "Evidence has shown that Parke's death was caused when oxygen entered his lungs at a pressure of about 40 pund per square inch" (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 27 March 1985, page B3) - peter bain ...!{allegra|decvax|clyde|ihnp4 }!watmath!wateng!pdbain hard mail: CCNG, CPH-2369A, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2M 5G4 telephone: (519) 885-1211 x2810 -- - peter bain ...!{allegra|decvax|clyde|ihnp4 }!watmath!wateng!pdbain hard mail: CCNG, CPH-2369A, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2M 5G4 telephone: (519) 885-1211 x2810