‘Squashed’ breathing tube may have caused teenager’s death, inquest hears

Jasmine Hill. Theatre staff at Gloucestershire hospitals NHS foundation trust say they were not aware of any compromise to her ventilation tube. Photograph: Family/PA

A teenager died after a breathing tube was possibly squashed by a wheel of her hospital trolley during emergency surgery, an inquest has heard.

Jasmine Hill, 19, had a cardiac arrest shortly after undergoing a procedure on her neck at Gloucestershire royal hospital in Gloucester.