{"id":358943,"date":"2026-01-08T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358943\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:51:09","slug":"airvo-2-department-warning-after-life-saving-breathing-equipment-malfunctions-during-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358943\/","title":{"rendered":"Airvo 2: Department warning after life-saving breathing equipment malfunctions during use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Three incidents have been reported to DoH during December alone\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Airvo 2, which is an integrated flow generator used to deliver high levels of oxygen to patients\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/38a2f45c-6be7-406f-8d72-d37634da75f5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Airvo 2, which is an integrated flow generator used to deliver high levels of oxygen to patients<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Department of Health (DoH) has issued a warning to staff following reports that a number of life-saving breathing devices had malfunctioned during use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Northern Ireland Safety Notice posted to the department website on December 23 revealed six incidents had been reported where a breathing device had turned itself off during use, with three incidents occurring this month alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three incidents have been reported to DoH during December alone The Airvo 2, which is an integrated flow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2863,102,43348,2960,2859,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-department-of-health","tag-health","tag-health-trusts","tag-healthcare","tag-liam-tunney","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}