The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death reviewed the care given to 585 acutely-ill patients who ended up having a cardiac arrest.
Data gathered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) suggests as many as one in five patients on intravenous (IV) fluids have complications or die because of inappropriate administration.
The committee later heard evidence from Fiona Giraud from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Angela Hopkins from Cwm Taf Health Board, who largely reiterated what had been said before, with Ms Hopkins calling for the set-up of a national stillbirth enquiry team.