A mum-of-two died after a tube that was helping her breathe came loose after life-saving surgery, an inquest heard. It has led to a hospital trust implementing new procedures and training in an effort to prevent it happening again.
Melanie Coops, 50, was taken to Wythenshawe hospital on February 25 last year after contracting Covid during the height of the second wave of the pandemic. The mum was then put on a ventilator three days later to help her condition of pneumonitis which was badly affecting her lungs. The ventilator did improve her condition over the proceeding weeks.
Her condition improved to the point that doctors attempted to take her off the ventilator so she could breathe herself. However, within an hour of this Melanie 'rapidly deteriorated' and had a cardiac arrest.
