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 Raynaldo Ortiz, a one-time anesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas, will die in prison for putting a deadly drug cocktail into IV bags at a surgery center. Authorities say the IV drugs, which led to the death of a colleague, were tampered with because of Ortiz’s anger over recent disciplinary action.

 a Texas  anesthesiologist who tampered wiht IV bags injecting them vith dangerous drugs

and eventually killing  someone was just sentenced to 190 years in prison.

were’re going to update you on the case of Ronaldo  Ortiz Jr whos crimes were caught on  camera.

a federal  jury  convinced an anesthesiologist known as raynaldo  ortiz Jr  out in Dallas and he will now spend many life times in prison after he  intentionally poisoned IV bags that were about  to be used in surgeries 

the main question  why would he ever do this – you want to know why ?

because  apparently he was mad about a mistake that  he made  in  one of his  own surgeries and potentially was in fear that he was going  to lose his  medical license

and by the way his misdeed how did  they  come to light  this  is what makes this case absolutely  heartbreaking

 this is a story  by the way  we focused on a previous  sidebar but we’re revisiting it now because we have these new  developments .

back to 2022

several  patients at a surgery center in in dallas started having these  cardiac emergencies seemingly out of nowhere and was during pretty  routine surgeries .

multiple people had to be rushed out of the surgical north dallas facility and then they were taken to trauma hospitals for treatment so  about a month after what were these strange incidents they started happening

this anesthesiologist named dr melanie casper wanted to treat herself with dehydration after a shift at the facilitiy.

so she takes an IV bag home and it was supposed to just have saline in it. but after she used it the the 55 year old  died at home  in front of her husbans who said  that she  was just  writhing  on the floor  in pain.

then   august 2022 an  18 year old who was just  having a routine sinus surgery when all of a sudden  he had to be rushed  to the intensive car Unit 

doctors started  to get suspicious that something was wrong with the IV ,so  a lab  analyzed the fluid from the bag that was used during the 18 year olds procedure and they found multiple drugs that had no business being in there including epinephrine,lidocaine

as well as this nerve blockin agent and according  to experts  that mixture could have caused the boy’s reaction and the lab also documented a puncture in  the bag as well.

so in all an investigation uncovered that 11 patients had major and potentially devastating reactions during  surgery because of these  tainted IV bags

before i get into the evidence about linking  up to ronaldo that  is just  next level……

next level indeed and the story is  just  horrific even the ones who survived ,like the 18 years old, his parents were told that he has a 5050 chance  of surviving of living 

imagine you go in for some minor surgery and then you’re about to die from it and people are wondering why.

well…..

because this guy kept doing it  over  and over again is  finally why  he got caught or else perhaps he would never have gotten caught.

in fact he was there on camera as these individuals were wheeled out like fighting for life.

so there’s this investigtion it rolledout in september of 2022, the Texas medical board was notified they held an emergency meeting and they suspended ortiz’s medical license and as part f that investigation.

there’re this daminging surveillance video that weas uncovered in one of the videos ortiz can be seen taking IV bags from this warming bin and then replacing them right after 

and those bags were then  carried into operating rooms  and the patients the  IV saline was given to they suffered these sudden cardiac emergencies

another video where ortiz is seen taking a  vial out of  a cabinet and an IV bag out of the warmer

and another one ortiz walks down the hall ,opens the warmer  looks inside , shuts it  again possibly checking to see if the ones he tampered were still in there .

there are videos that also show ortiz mixing up vials of medication

and  even watching his victims that wheeled out of operating room by emergency responders

and exactly what   ortiz is doing, it can’t always be seen on the cameras but prosecutors were able to draw some pretty strong inferences from what those cameras did capture.

people lie but  video does not 

they got him and perhaps that’s why he decided not to really  contest the charges too much,he knew he was guilty but it doesn’t give you any comfort if you’re the family members of the people who died so unnecessarily or who was clean to to life unnecessarily because of a guy who had his own personal agenda.

but according to prosecutors they say that  he was upset over disciplinary action taken  against him at surgicare north north dallas because of a mistake he made in oe of his own surgeries so again  he just wanted to mess up the surgeries of his colleagues as well

So again just a completely…if that’s what it is- completely random motive and you’re just hurting  innocent people in the way , it it’s sickening to think about .

during the trial the jury saw those  surveillance videos , they heard testimony from patients and fellow doctors, they listened  to experts, explain  why it would never be necessary for an anesthesiologist tobe handling medicines and IV bags the way  ortiz did.

now the defense wht did they do?

they tried to say that  ortiz was a scapegoat that the hospital didn’t really  do a thorough investigation  and they just decided to blame him instead.

essentially saying it could have been doctor’s mistakes for what happened to all these people and also  had a medical expert who testified that the patients  could have other conditions that caused them to go into cardiac arrest and possibly…

one of the best defenses that ortiz had was that  the only fingerprint that was found  on an IV bag wasn’t his  and despite that after eight days of trial in federal court.

ortiz  was found guilty – a jury convicted him of four counts of tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury.

one count of tampering with a consumer product.

and five counts of intentional adulteration of a drug

those defenses didn’t work , why?

the videos   speaks volumes, they showed he was the one who was tampering with the bags no one else had the means and motives and opportunity, there were puncture wounds….

marks in the bags , so  this all pointed to one person , it was his responsibility after all  to deal with the bags to handle the bags 

and this poor doctor in the end who was dehydrated and tool one of his bag and then  went home and died shortly thereafter

well ,hwo else could be blamed for that ? these were his bags unless someone was trying to sabotage him to sabotage the hospital.

the idea of the fingerprint though that they only  founde one fingerprint on the bag and it wasn’t his  that wasn’t significant  and there  also couple with  the idea of these people might have had people are going for surgeries 

 there’s always complications with surgeries there might have been other reasons for why they died but  at the end  of the day …if an anesthesiologist was poisining multiple  people it seems like an unbelievable story

but  if the prosecution’s able to prove that story that  is  significant even despite the what the defense was trying to to do raise some reasonable doubt.

and the lack of  fingerprints does not mean that he didn’t do it

well  on november 20th, ortiz was  sentenced officially to 190 years in prison that is the maximum there and during his sentencing hearing  victims and their family members they were given the opportunity to speak the son of  one victim told the court that his 10 year old son  no longer trusts doctors because 

Quote;  a  doctor tried to kill pops.

Dr  john casper this is the husband of the doctor who died  after traating her dehyddration with one of  those tained bags  told the court the image of his wife’s lifeless eyes would never leave him.

despite  the judge saying that what happened to the victim was tantamount to attempted murder ortiz has not been charged in dr casper’s death directly.

why is that ,wy wasn’t he charged with her murder ?  

because  he got 180,190 years in prison

there is the issue of that she have other  medical conditions ,so the prosecutors probably thought “were’re got this low hanging fruit” he tampered with the materials, he violated CTIC code  

prosecutors  don’t need to prove that he murdered her, he didn’t even knew that she  was going to grab the bag , so this was  tampering with this bags and she grabbed it

because she was dehydrated so to prove inentional  murder here is way too difficult for prosecutors who didn’t  need to do it because  he’s going to be facing the rest of his life in prison anyway .

190 years for  he 60 year old,he’s going  to spending  the rest of  his life in prison

is there any  chance of parole or is this  he’s a life sentence

his only chance is on appeal ,if his lawyers can overturn the conviction ,get a new trial-it’s goint to be very hard to do so though.

a statement from leia simonton.

this is what terrorists do they attack indiscriminately innocent people that’s what he did  and he had his own motives  but he’s going to face justice because he’s never getting out of prison now .

so  well said by the US attorney  and  that sends a message for other medical professionals that you know have a  hypocritic oath , you know if you’re going to do anything in this area your’e going to be scrutinized and ulitmately face justice