Hospital patient arrested for allegedly switching off neighbor’s ‘noisy’ oxygen machine

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A hospital patient has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off the oxygen equipment on which a fellow patient depended because it was too noisy, German authorities have said.

The public prosecutor’s office in the southwest German city of Mannheim obtained a warrant for the 72-year-old woman’s arrest and she was brought before the magistrate and investigating judge of Mannheim Local Court on Wednesday.

She was later admitted to a “correctional facility,” the police headquarters and public prosecutor’s office in Mannheim said in a statement.

The woman allegedly turned off the main switch of the oxygen equipment some time before 8:00 pm on Tuesday, “after feeling disturbed by the noise emanating from (it),” the statement said.

“Although the suspect was informed by hospital staff that the oxygen supply was a vital measure, she allegedly turned off the device again at around 9:00 pm,” it continued.

The 79-year-old woman had to be resuscitated and is still receiving intensive medical care.

Oxygen equipment is used to ensure that enough oxygen reaches a patient’s cells and can take different forms, including a nasal cannula, face mask or tracheotomy tube, according to the Cleveland Clinic website.

me-smrt on December 3rd, 2022 at 03:58 UTC »

I remember when the machine monitoring my heart ran out of battery, I was still on anaesthesia and 16 sharing a room with a young girl and her dad who snored his ass off, but as soon as it started beeping he literally instantly told me “it’s okay” and he got a nurse.

There’s nice people out there still.

breovus on December 3rd, 2022 at 00:38 UTC »

That's a grandma a little too used to having things her way, I suppose.

Bending_toast on December 3rd, 2022 at 00:08 UTC »

“Although the suspect was informed by hospital staff that the oxygen supply was a vital measure, she allegedly turned off the device again at around 9:00 pm,” I’ve got a feeling this psychopath has a hard time with the word ‘No’