A patient received an hypoxic anaesthetic gas mixture und mude an uneventful recovery. The fault was truced to an air-oxygen mixer valve in the Intensive Care Unit. An oxygen monitor in theatre would have detected the fault bejore the patient was anaesthetised.
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