Overview

This page concerns an EMS response after a vehicular collision in which ketamine allegedly was given at more than 16 times the maximum dose, the patient went into respiratory arrest, scene providers could not ventilate her for 7 to 9 minutes, and a later hospital-concealment allegation was added to the airway-failure claim.

System Intermountain Health Care
Fact pattern Vehicular-collision EMS response followed by ketamine overdose, respiratory arrest, failed ventilation, and later concealment allegation
Alleged harm Fatal anoxic brain injury and death

Chronology

  1. After a vehicular collision, EMS providers treated nineteen-year-old Hannah Brooks.
  2. The EMS providers allegedly injected Hannah with over 16 times the maximum dose of ketamine, causing respiratory arrest.
  3. Providers on the scene were unable to provide ventilation for 7 to 9 minutes.
  4. Hannah suffered a fatal anoxic brain injury from prolonged oxygen deprivation, and the summary further alleges that the hospital later concealed the true cause of death.

Alleged failures

EMS providers allegedly administered over 16 times the maximum dose of ketamine.

Scene providers allegedly were unable to ventilate Hannah Brooks for 7 to 9 minutes after she went into respiratory arrest.

The hospital allegedly concealed the true cause of Hannah’s death by concealing the EMS errors.

Entities

Intermountain Health Care, Inc.EMS providersKetamineRespiratory arrestVentilationAnoxic brain injury
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