A Colorado family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after a paramedic injected a woman with ketamine during an incident in 2018, according to a report.
Responders were called about a distressed person trespassing on private property in Colorado Springs on the night of Jan. 18, 2018, NBC News reported. They found 29-year-old Jerica LaCour lying on the ground and crying uncontrollably after she had been drinking.
The family’s lawsuit claims a paramedic for AMR administered 400 milligrams of ketamine to LaCour despite objections from a firefighter-EMT also on scene. LaCour stopped breathing after being injected, the lawsuit alleges.
Last year, Colorado’s health department announced that EMS providers should not use a condition involving erratic behavior as a reason to use ketamine. The announcement came two years after the fatal arrest of Elijah McClain.
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