UK Ventilator
AP-APTN-1830: UK Ventilator
Monday, 25 October 2010
STORY:UK Ventilator- REPLAY Man brain damaged after nurse turns off ventilator
LENGTH: 00:38
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: No Access UK
TYPE: Natsound
SOURCE: Family Handout via BBC
STORY NUMBER: 662592
DATELINE: Devizes, Jan 2009
LENGTH: 00:38
FAMILY HANDOUT VIA BBC - NO ACCESS UK
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE - VIDEO WAS CAPTIONED AND PIXELLATED AT SOURCE++
SHOTLIST
1. Nurse Violetta Aylward standing by Jamie Merrett's bed pressing buttons on ventilator, caption on screen reading (English) "Carer: What've you done?" "Nurse: Switched this off"
2. Carer rushing to help, UPSOUND and caption reading (English) Carer: "Well get this, quickly, quickly", nurse moving to bedside with resuscitation bag to help Merrett
3. Aylward attempting to fix resuscitation bag to tube in Merrett's neck
4. Merrett being attended to by paramedics, UPSOUND and caption reading (English) Paramedic: "You haven't had any training on it?" Nurse: "No."
STORYLINE:
A quadriplegic English man has been left brain damaged after a nurse accidentally switched off his ventilator - an act caught on a camera the patient had reportedly installed because he was concerned about the quality of his care.
Footage released on Monday by the BBC shows nurse Violetta Aylward turning off Jamie Merrett's ventilator in January 2009, then struggling to revive him.
The broadcaster said it took 21 minutes for the machine to be restarted.
Merrett was left paralysed from the neck down in a 2002 road accident, but was able to talk, use a wheelchair and operate a computer.
His sister Karen Reynolds told the BBC that since his brain damage, his level of understanding had dropped to that of a young child.
The health authority responsible for Merrett's care has apologised for "the incident in January 2009 when the patient's ventilator care was compromised."
In a statement, NHS Wiltshire Primary Care Trust said it had "put in place a series of actions to ensure that such an event will not occur again either for this patient or others."
Aylward worked for an agency contracted by the health care trust.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council said she has been suspended pending an investigation.
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