Boy’s asthma attack mistaken for panic attack: coroner
The eight-year-old's death in a Tasmanian hospital was due to 'substandard care'
An eight-year-old boy living under a government care order died from chronic asthma in a Tasmanian hospital when staff wrongly believed he was having a panic attack.
A coroner has ruled attempts to resuscitate the boy in his final moments were of a poor standard and his entirely avoidable death was due to substandard treatment.
