Treating Patients with Sodium Nitrite Poisoning

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Our Reference: FOI 3830 2023/24

Dear Peter Aitken,

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From: Peter Aitken <[FOI #1075303 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:16 AM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Treating Patients with
Sodium Nitrite Poisoning

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Dear University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust,

Can you please let me know when you will be able to respond to my FOIA
request that I submitted on the 22nd January 2024 ?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Aitken

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Our reference: FOI 3830 2023/24

Dear Peter Aitken,

Thank you for your request for information. The Trust's response is
provided in the attached document.  Please accept our apologies for the
delay in providing our response, this has likely been due to urgent
responses in relation to public health priorities.

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regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham
Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull
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From: Peter Aitken <[FOI #1075303 email]>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 8:14 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Treating Patients with Sodium
Nitrite Poisoning

This Message has originated outside your organisation.

Dear University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust,

Our daughter Hannah Aitken aged 22 recently took her own life by ingesting
sodium nitrite. From the material we have seen so far from her inquest, we
understand that there is an antidote to sodium nitrite poisoning called
methylthioninium chloride, commonly referred to as methylene blue.

We request the following information :

1) Are A&E clinicians and nurses employed by the University Hospitals
Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust trained to recognise the symptoms of
sodium nitrite poisoning ?

2) Are A&E clinicians and nurses employed by the University Hospitals
Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust trained to treat patients suffering with
sodium nitrite poisoning with the antidote methylthioninium chloride
commonly called methylene blue ?

3) Does the A&E department at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS
Foundation Trust routinely carry the antidote methylthioninium chloride
commonly called methylene blue ?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Aitken

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