Emergency care

Errors in overflowing EDs causing heart attacks, NHS England warns

By 2023-01-10T12:45:00

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Patients have suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests because of errors using oxygen cylinders, NHS England has warned, citing more people being cared for in “areas without access to medical gas pipeline systems” such as corridors and ambulances queuing outside A&E.

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