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Ventilator errors are linked to 119 deaths

Warnings are often ignored, missed by overtaxed caregivers

By Liz Kowalczyk

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 11, 2011

More than a hundred patients have died since 2005 in incidents involving the machines’ warning alarms, warnings often ignored or missed by overtaxed caregivers

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