Safety Stories

Safety stories

External reservoirs of infection during an outbreak - November 2025

Burn to the foot during a capillary blood test - May 2025

Life threatening pericardial tamponade - December 2024

Oesophageal Perforation in the extremely preterm infant - July 2020

Is the "PICC"ture perfect? Aerterial malposition of the long line - Jan 2020

A rare complication of lower limb PICC insertion - June 2019

Enhanced identification of harm in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through improved incident reporting - April 2019

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