A Texas anesthesiologist who injected dangerous drugs into patient IV bags, leading to one death and numerous cardiac emergencies was sentenced.
This photo provided by the Dallas Police Department shows Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. Jr. Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. Jr. a Dallas anesthesiologist was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 after federal investigators accused him of tampering with patients' bags of intravenous fluids. Federal prosecutors say Ortiz Jr.
Ortiz, who had a history of disciplinary actions against him, complained to other physicians that the center was trying to "crucify" him. Court documents show that Ortiz, who was arrested in September 2022 and convicted in April, waived his appearance at sentencing in federal court.Prosecutors said numerous patients at Surgicare North Dallas suffered cardiac emergencies during routine medical procedures performed by various doctors from May through August in 2022. Another anesthesiologist who had worked there died while treating herself for dehydration using an IV bag from the facility, prosecutors said.
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