A (b)(6) presented to the ed for respiratory distress with sudden onset of shortness of breath.Had chest tightness earlier in the day.During the ed visit, bipap was started.It is hypothesized that the patient a medical event, slumped down, and the tubing was disconnected from the patient's bipap mask to the bipap machine.After the tubing disconnection, the bipap alarm went off for 6 minutes, was set at 2 (10 high scale), not heard by staff.Volume escalation was turned off.The patient's heart rate dropped and the physician was alerted to this.Pt found unresponsive, pulseless, apneic.Code blue called.It is not clear if the bipap disconnection led to the patient's respiratory/cardiac arrest or if the patient had a medical event prior to the mask disconnection.Fda safety report id# (b)(4).
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