The death
of anesthesiologist Anna Kaspar, who practiced at Baylor Scott & White
Surgicare North Dallas, is now being investigated by the Dallas Police
Department after the Dallas County Medical Examiner found that she died from
toxic effects of a local anesthetic. She had taken an IV bag home from the
hospital for suspected dehydration, and soon after had a heart attack.
The
hospital has now stopped operating because it found an IV bag that appeared to
have been compromised. A recent Texas Medical board order revealed that Dr.
Raynaldo Ortiz Jr. had been caught this summer on surveillance footage
placing IV bags into the warmer outside operating rooms at Baylor Scott &
White Surgicare North Dallas. On several occasions, patients inside those rooms
would go on to suffer serious cardiac complications.
One of
those bags went home with Kaspar. The board has suspended Ortiz's license, and
he is the subject of a law enforcement investigation connected to these
incidents.
Will Maddox reports that this isn’t the first time Ortiz has
been disciplined by the Texas Medical Board, outlining a pattern of suspensions
and fines, as well as criminal charges.
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