A New Mexico couple are suing a Santa Fe hospital after the wife almost died after given the painkiller Dilaudid.

The woman was taken to the emergency room after suffering from severe abdominal pain in May 2010. While there, nurses gave her Dilaudid. Despite her worsening pain and sickness, hospital staff continued to administer the pain medication to her.

According to the lawsuit, her husband and daughter came to visit her after lunch and found her arms twitching, her face purple, her mouth foaming, and her eyes rolled back. The couple argues that the hospital staff should have been properly trained or should have known the morbidly obese are at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea that can be aggravated by narcotic analgesic medication like Dilaudid.

The woman says she suffers from severe emotional distress following her near death experience and has been unable to return to work.

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