Most Emergency Units are populated with 10 year old throw-outs from theatre, and it is easily done with our machines. We don't of
course know the full story of this terrible mishap, and it may be as well to comment little until we hear exactly what went wrong. If you
want the level of medical knowledge displayed by the average newspaper writer, you can do worse than read Thursday's /Daily Mail/.
I was astonished to learn that nitrous oxide was not normally given in concentrations above 10%...
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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