“When he deposited an IV bag in the warmer, shortly thereafter a patient would suffer a serious complication,” the report states.
Ortiz’s colleague, beloved anesthesiologist Melanie Kaspar, took a contaminated IV bag home on June 21 to rehydrate due to an illness.
The drug is meant to be injected into the spinal cord and is known to cause “severe cardio- and neurotoxicity” and death when injected into the veins, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in Canada. “Respondent’s continued practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare,” the emergency suspension order states.
In December 2014, Ortiz and his then-girlfriend, the mother of his child, got into an argument in front of their neighbor, Roxanne Bogdan, and he was arrested for alleged assault. “She ran into her backyard and saw her dog’s chest covered in blood,” according to court papers. The pooch survived.
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