The parents of Jack Hicks, who died in the Hospital on 18 March, had believed that use of nitric oxide, which is not available in Jersey and is only used in specialist hospitals in the UK, might have saved his life.
They had understood this following a conversation with a consultant paediatrician and after reading an independent report into their son’s death. But the inquest heard that this was not the case and that use of the gas could, in fact, have made his condition worse.
• Full report in Tuesday’s Jersey Evening Post
