Paramedics using ketamine on patients | Scripps News Investigates

In this episode, Scripps News takes a closer look at ketamine used by paramedics to sedate patients, as well as a spike in child labor incidents.

In late 2023, a jury found two Colorado paramedics who were charged in the death of Elijah McClain guilty of criminally negligent homicide. 

McClain was killed in 2019 after police restrained him and the paramedics injected him with the sedative ketamine.

A Scripps News Investigation has found that the case has prompted other families around the country to raise questions about the sedative, especially in deadly incidents where there were no findings of criminal wrongdoing. 

Jonathan “Stewart” Blahut died in 2022 after a paramedic sedated him with ketamine in Gautier, Mississippi.