Overview
- Jeremy Tussey filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday in Hamilton County that names JourneyLite of Cincinnati, Associated Anesthesiologists of Springfield and several nurses.
- The complaint alleges a nurse gave 150 micrograms of fentanyl and 0.5 milligrams of Dilaudid within 30 minutes after surgery, which it says caused opioid toxicity and six minutes without oxygen to her brain.
- According to the filing, doctors at Bethesda North Hospital ruled out surgical complications and attributed her death to anoxic brain injury after an overdose and acute respiratory failure.
- A 911 call obtained by WLWT captures a nurse reporting Tussey was not breathing and telling the dispatcher the team would wait for responders rather than take medical instructions.
- The suit also accuses the center of systemic safety failures, saying nurses lacked the post-anesthesia airway training that Ohio law requires, and it follows an earlier, separate lawsuit by her surgeon.