Texas doctor who poisoned patients with tainted medical IV bags sentenced to 190 years

A Texas anesthesiologist convicted of injecting heart-stopping poison into patients' IV bags has been sentenced to 190 years successful prison.

Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz, Jr., 60, erstwhile dubbed a "medical terrorist," was recovered blameworthy connected 4 counts of tampering with user products resulting successful superior bodily injury, 1 number of tampering with a user merchandise and 5 counts of intentional adulteration of a cause aft an eight-day proceedings successful April of past year.

Sentencing was handed down by Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey, who ruled Ortiz’s actions equivalent to attempted execution and U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton seemingly agreed.

"This disgraced doc acted nary amended than an equipped assailant spraying bullets indiscriminately into a crowd. Dr. Ortiz tampered with random IV bags, seemingly unconcerned with who helium hurt. But helium wielded an invisible weapon, a cocktail of heart-stopping drugs, concealed wrong an IV container designed to assistance patients heal," said Simonton.

TEXAS DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY OF POISONING PATIENTS BY PUTTING DANGEROUS DRUGS IN IV BAGS

Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz, left, and a screenshot from surveillance footage wherever helium is allegedly tampering with IV bags that poisoned patients. (WebMD/U.S. State Attorney's Office)

Simonton continued: "On astatine slightest 9 abstracted occasions, helium fundamentally attacked unconscious patients lying connected an operating table, and adjacent killed a colleague. I americium truthful arrogant of our office’s enactment successful bringing Dr. Ortiz to justness and bringing a measurement of solace to his victims and their families."

During the trial, doctors said they were confused erstwhile their patients’ humor pressures were abruptly spiking, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas. After reviewing aesculapian records, 1 happening successful communal with each incidental was that these emergencies took spot aft caller IV bags had been hung.

Evidence presented successful the proceedings showed that patients at Surgicare North Dallas suffered cardiac emergencies during regular aesculapian procedures successful 2022.  The evidence showed that it was not done by immoderate peculiar doctor.  

TEXAS DOCTOR ACCUSED OF POISONING PATIENTS BEGS FOR BAIL, GIVES NEW DETAILS ABOUT DOG SHOOTING

Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz (left) was recovered blameworthy of contaminating IV bags, which caused the decease of Dr. Melanie Kaspar (right). (Dallas Police Department/ Obituary)

After the unexplained emergencies, a chap anesthesiologist treated herself for dehydration utilizing 1 of the tainted bags and died that day. Her husband, Dr. John Kaspar, told the tribunal the representation of seeing his wife’s "lifeless eyes" inactive haunts him and volition ne'er permission him. She was "my life" and "the strongest woman" he’d ever met, helium said.

During the sentencing, families and patients spoke astir the "life-altering" symptom they had endured astatine the hands of Ortiz. A lad of 1 unfortunate said that due to the fact that of what happened, his 10-year-old lad did not spot doctors anymore due to the fact that "a doc tried to termination Pops."

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Another unfortunate said aft the cardiac incidental helium woke up feeling "all chewed up" and has not been the aforesaid since.   

Ortiz waived his rights and was not contiguous to perceive the condemnation oregon the statements from his victims.