UHG REVIEWING TRACHEOSTOMY PROCEDURES AFTER PATIENT DEATH

Date Published: 07-Nov-2008

University Hospital Galway is reviewing its procedures with regard to stabilising tracheostomy tubes after a patient died when a tube became dislodged in his throat. 70 year old retired farmer Frank Grenham, from Athlone died from severe asphyxiation after a tube which had been inserted in his throat to help him breathe, became dislodged as he was being turned in bed in the intensive care unit of UHG.