The infant had an episode where the heartrate dropped into the 60's and oxygen saturations dropped into the 70%s.The staff noticed that the nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nippv) prongs were out of the patient's nose.The prongs were placed back into the patient's nose, unwrapped, and stimulated the infant because apnea was noticed.Despite all interventions, the infant's vitals continued to trend downward so staff continued to give 100% fio2, sat up the infant, performed oral suction, and stimulated vigorously.At that time, oxygen saturation dropped to 0 and heart rate to 30.This lasted for approximately 5 seconds and the oxygen saturation increased to 16% and heart rate was 60-80 bpm.The staff got the bag and valve to start positive pressure ventilation (ppv).As they started to remove the nippv prongs from the infant's face to start administering ppv, they noticed that the prongs were not attached to the tubing connected to the ventilator.The ventilator did not alarm to alert staff to the disconnection as it usually does.The prongs were reconnected to the tubing that was attached to the ventilator.
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