Breath of Death: A hospital uses laughing gas for oxygen.

The article reports on the incident happened in Suburban General Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania wherein the oxygen which they used for their patient were replaced with nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. The incident has revealed after physician Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled oxygen was actually pumping nitrous oxide to their patient. Hospital authorities identified that the incident was caused by mislabeled pipe connections that caused as many as five deaths. It also cites a 7 million dollars in damages granted to Carolyn Ann Lord, who died from being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at the Southmore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas .