Texas anaesthesiologist poisoned IV bags that made patients ill and killed fellow doctor, court finds

An anaesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas, could face a prison sentence of 190 years after he was convicted of injecting a deadly cocktail of drugs into intravenous (IV) saline bags, leading to cardiac emergencies on the operating table and the death of a fellow doctor who took a bag home to treat herself for dehydration.Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr, 60, was a “medical terrorist” who “assembled ticking time bombs, then sat in wait as those medical time bombs went off one by one,” said US attorney Leigha Simonton.Ortiz’s actions had left “toxic cocktails flowing into the veins of patients who were often at their most vulnerable, lying unconscious on the operating table,” said Simonton, and several woke up intubated in intensive care. “We saw the patients testify. Their pain, their fear, and their trauma was palpable in that courtroom.”A string of unexplained cardiac emergencies arose during routine operations at Baylor Scott and…
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