(CN) — A Dallas anesthesiologist asked a Fifth Circuit panel Wednesday to overturn his conviction for poisoning patient IV bags with dangerous drugs, arguing there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction.
In the summer of 2022, patients at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas began experiencing a string of unexplained cardiac emergencies that resulted in them needing to be hospitalized. Eventually, staff at the facility came to suspect these incidents were being caused by poisoned IV bags.
The wrapper for an IV saline bag used in one of the patients’ surgeries was found to have a hole in it, and testing revealed that the bag contained the drugs epinephrine, bupivacaine and lidocaine. Other IV bags at the facility were also found to have holes in their wrappers and to contain chemicals they should not have…