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Wed 01 Jan 2007Resuscitation equipment faulty, claims prison nurseA claim by a nurse at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin that resuscitation equipment used to attempt to revive a prisoner who hanged himself was faulty has been vigorously denied by other nurses who medically attended the inmate.Nurse Mary Cullinane told Dublin County Coroner's Court yesterday that the resuscitation oxygen tank was not properly filling the retainer bag and raising the chest on the young inmate who had hanged himself. Three other nurses who attended the prisoner said this was untrue.