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More than a year after a former Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted of tampering with IV bags, survivors and their families say they are still waiting for the medical industry to take action ...
IV bags are only used in prescription use settings (i.e. hospitals, certain other inpatient and outpatient facilities." The FDA also stated individual bags do not normally contain a tamper ...
A Texas physician was suspended and arrested after officials say he tampered with IV bags, causing serious cardiac complications and one death. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news ...
At a federal court hearing Monday, prosecutors described Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. as a “medical terrorist” who used heart-stopping drugs to turn IV bags at a surgical facility in Dallas ...
In June 2022, anesthesiologist Melanie Kasper used an IV bag from the facility to treat herself at home for dehydration. She then complained of severe pain and collapsed, a police incident report ...
A Dallas anesthesiologist accused of poisoning IV bags with heart-stopping drugs, causing the death of a fellow doctor and cardiac emergencies for 11 patients, will remain in custody.
An anesthesiologist with a criminal record was arrested Wednesday after his medical license was yanked amid a probe into poisoned IV bags at a Texas hospital that killed a physician.
A Dallas anesthesiologist was sentenced Wednesday to 190 years in prison for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked ...
It’s the bags that hold the fluids and drugs used for intravenous (IV) infusions. Research from way back in the 1970s ...
Texas Doctor Died After Using Contaminated IV Bag. Her Colleague Was Just Arrested Authorities believe Dr. Melanie Kaspar, one of Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz, Jr.'s colleagues, died because of a ...
Search warrants obtained by WRAL News indicate that Kellianne McGuire, a charge nurse, took the drug straight from a patient’s active intravenous (IV) bag while it was being administered. Earlier in ...
After Raynaldo Ortiz case, survivors demand changes to IV bags 07:46. More than a year after a former Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted of tampering with IV bags, survivors and their families ...