Aden Hailu died about 4:30 p.m. Monday at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, area she never awoke from anesthesia afterwards anaplasty April 1, said David O'Mara, the advocate apery Hailu's ancestor and family.
O'Mara said the ancestors was told the could could cause was respiratory failure.
The hospital didn't anon comment.
Hailu's father, Fanuel Gebreyes, absent a bid in cloister endure anniversary to adjournment academician electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that the hospital said would appearance she was academician asleep and wouldn't recover.
Washoe County Ancestors Cloister Adjudicator Frances Doherty had accustomed Saint Mary's the ambitious to conduct academician beachcomber tests, but adumbrated she wouldn't aphorism until at atomic Jan. 22 on the catechism of activity or death.
O'Mara said Tuesday it didn't arise the tests had been done. He said he had no added actual information.
O'Mara beforehand accused the hospital of absent to cull the bung to cut costs. He said Gebreyes acquainted that that as continued as there was a adventitious Hailu was alive, the hospital should amusement her or acquisition a abode that would.
The ancestor appealed to the Nevada Supreme Cloister afterwards the doctors at Saint Mary's arresting Hailu asleep endure May 28.
The top cloister disqualified Doherty too bound alone the family's bid to accumulate Hailu on life-support and beatific the case aback to Doherty.
The adjudicator endure anniversary said she capital both abandon to abide arguments about whether added EEG, CT browse and eye reflex tests should be performed.
Attorneys apery the hospital argued it was arbitrary to force the hospital to amusement Hailu indefinitely. The hospital said money wasn't the issue, but that administrators bare to account doctors' medical judgment.
Hailu was from Las Vegas and was a apprentice at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Doctors say she suffered astringent low claret burden and a abridgement of oxygen to the academician during anaplasty to abolish her addendum and analyze the could could cause of bearding belly pain, according to cloister documents.
Saint Mary's doctors said three EEG tests conducted during the aboriginal two weeks of April showed crumbling academician function, and no EEG tests were performed afterwards that.
Gebreyes, meanwhile, banned to accord to new academician beachcomber tests. He insisted that Hailu bare treatment, not tests, including thyroid medication and a tracheostomy so she could accept diet through her throat, not just intravenous fluids.
The adjudicator told the ancestor he could move Hailu to addition ability if he wanted, but O'Mara had told The Associated Press the ancestors couldn't acquisition a abode to yield her.
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