Boy’s heart stops for 16 minutes after tube comes loose in Hong Kong hospital
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“Boy’s heart stops for 16 minutes after tube comes loose in Hong Kong hospital”
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— From 2019 until 2020, protests were held in Hong Kong in response to the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the la…
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— Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. It was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom from 184…
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— Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is an international airport on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Ai…
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“Hong Kong Children’s Hospital launches probe as boy remains in intensive care, receiving ventilator support and protective treatment for his brain”
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— Hong Kong Baptist Hospital (HKBH) is a private Baptist hospital based in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is affiliated with the Baptist Convention of Hong Kong.
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— Hong Kong Children's Hospital (Chinese: 香港兒童醫院; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng Yìhtùhng Yīyún) is the first children hospital in Hong Kong's public healthcare system, located in Kowloon City, Hong Kong. Lo…
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— This is a list of hospitals and other medical facilities in Hong Kong.
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“A probe has been launched into a serious medical incident in which a six-year-old boy’s heart stopped for about 16 minutes at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital after his breathing tube came loose from the ventilator”
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— Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re…
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— The Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) is a public district general hospital in Hong Kong. It is the largest hospital on Hong Kong Island at 1,711 beds, and is also a teaching hospital affiliated with the dent…
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— The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay (Chinese: 大口環根德公爵夫人兒童醫院; Cantonese Yale: Daaihháuwàahn Gāndāk Gūngjeuk Fūyàhn Yìhtùhng Yīyún) is a paediatric hospital in Sandy Bay on Hong Kong Is…
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“The hospital has taken immediate measures to strengthen the monitoring of patients requiring ventilator care in the intensive care unit”
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“A root cause analysis panel will be set up to investigate the incident and recommend improvement measures”
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“The boy, who suffers from a rare underlying disease, was admitted to the Kai Tak facility on December 24 last year”
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“He underwent an interventional procedure under general anaesthesia on Thursday, and was then transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit for monitoring”
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“At 7.29am the following day, a nurse found him in cardiac arrest and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation”
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