A Texas jury found anesthesiologist Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr. guilty of tampering with consumer products resulting in ...

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Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz, the disgraced anesthesiologist who injected heart-stopping drugs into patient IV bags, was sentenced ...

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A former Dallas anesthesiologist found guilty earlier this year of tampering with IV bags has been sentenced to federal ...

Raynaldo Ortiz, Jr., MD, is a Texas doctor who was found guilty of poisoning IV bags in the facility where he worked. Why ...

Dallas anesthesiologist Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr. was sentenced to 190 years in prison Wednesday for injecting dangerous ...

Intravenous (i.v.) anesthetics include etomidate, midazolam, propofol, thiopental, ketamine, and opioid agonists. The first four agents act by enhancing the activity of the inhibitory ...

A Dallas anesthesiologist was sentenced to 190 years in prison after injecting heart-stopping drugs into patient IV bags.

A Texas anesthesiologist was sentenced to 190 years in prison in a harrowing case involving tampered IV bags. Raynaldo ...

Evidence suggests the anesthesiologist surreptitiously injected IV bags of saline with epinephrine, bupivacaine and other ...