Raynaldo Ortiz was found guilty of putting harmful drugs into IV bags at a hospital in North Dallas. A jury decided he was guilty on all charges after deliberating for seven hours. Ortiz didn’t show any feelings when they read the decision.
Eleven patients had heart problems, and Dr. Melanie Kaspar, a colleague of Dr. Ortiz, died because of these IV bags. Videos showed Ortiz filling up large syringes with a mix of different drugs and putting IV bags into a warmer right before they were used on patients, who then had heart problems. The prosecutors think Ortiz did this because he was upset about being punished at work. They also said he was losing money in his business.
Ortiz’s lawyers claimed other people also handled the IV bags and that the patients might have had other health issues. But witnesses, including a teenager who had a heart attack during surgery, and Dr. Kaspar’s husband, said the IV bags were the problem. The surveillance video of the actions of the doctor was only available by coincidence because there had been a break-in previously.
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