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  Speaker 1: Today's video is about a medical mystery that ultimately gets
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  Speaker 1: solved when somebody uncovers some very unsettling security footage that
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  Speaker 1: we will play at the end of this video, but
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  Speaker 1: weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's story. On May
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty twenty two, an anesthesiologist named doctor Chad
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  Speaker 1: Marsden stood inside of an operator room with a nurse,
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  Speaker 1: a surgeon, and their unconscious patient. Doctor Marsden worked at
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  Speaker 1: the Baylor, Scott and White Surgic Care Center in Dallas, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and it was his job to make sure patients stayed
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  Speaker 1: asleep during surgery and then woke up safely afterward. That day,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Marsden and his colleagues were wrapping up a routine
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  Speaker 1: liposuction procedure on a middle aged woman. The surgeon had
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  Speaker 1: just finished stitching up the woman's incisions, and so doctor Marsden,
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  Speaker 1: following protocol, began taking her slowly off of anesthesia to
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  Speaker 1: wake her back up again. And so doctor Marsden turned
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  Speaker 1: off the anesthesia machine, which is this big rectangular device
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  Speaker 1: that takes the liquid anesthesia drugs and converts it into
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  Speaker 1: a vapor so it can be breathed in, and then
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  Speaker 1: doctor Marsden removed the breathing mask from the woman's face.
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  Speaker 1: Then he changed her IV from an anesthetic drug mixture
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  Speaker 1: to regular saline, and so now that these drugs were
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  Speaker 1: not being pumped into her system, she would wake up
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  Speaker 1: over the next half hour or so. After that, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marsden and the nurse and the surgeon took their patient
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  Speaker 1: on the stretcher and they pushed her out of ther
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  Speaker 1: into the hallway and began making their way down towards
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  Speaker 1: the recovery room. But as they were walking down this hallway,
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  Speaker 1: they bumped into more of their colleagues, another nurse and
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  Speaker 1: another anesthesiologist, and the hallway was tight enough that doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marsden had to step aside to let these two pass.
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  Speaker 1: Then after they did, and they sort of waved at
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  Speaker 1: their colleagues, Marsden, the nurse and the surgeon continued walking,
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  Speaker 1: and as they did, Marsden happened to look down at
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  Speaker 1: their patient, and immediately he knew something was wrong. This
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  Speaker 1: woman's skin had turned completely gray. Doctor Marsden was totally
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  Speaker 1: caught off guard by this. He looked at her vital
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  Speaker 1: sign monitor and saw that her blood pressure, which just
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  Speaker 1: moments ago had been normal, was now dangerously high. And
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  Speaker 1: then as he's staring at her monitor, her blood pressure plummeted,
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  Speaker 1: and then also her oxygen levels fell, and then she
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  Speaker 1: began foaming at the mouth. It was clear this woman
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  Speaker 1: was going into cardiac arrest, which meant if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: act quickly, her heart was going to stop. Now Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marsden again has sort of in shock at how quickly
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  Speaker 1: this is happen happening, but he just jumped into protocol.
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  Speaker 1: He began giving the woman chest compressions to make sure
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  Speaker 1: blood was flowing to her heart. Meanwhile, the surgeon administered
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  Speaker 1: oxygen and blood pressure medication, and the nurse called for
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  Speaker 1: an ambulance. The reason she had to call for an
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  Speaker 1: ambulance is because the surgeycare center was not equipped to
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  Speaker 1: handle medical emergencies. It was only for scheduled surgeries, and
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  Speaker 1: so if there was a medical emergency, all they could
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  Speaker 1: do was just stabilize the patient until paramedics arrived. And
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what doctor Marsden, the nurse, and the surgeon did.
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  Speaker 1: They got this woman stable and then just a minute later,
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  Speaker 1: two paramedics came running down the hallway. They took possession
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  Speaker 1: of the patient, they put her onto their stretcher. Out
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  Speaker 1: the door they went. They put her in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the ambulance and they sped off to the local hospital.
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  Speaker 1: As doctor Marsden watched the ambulance disappear down the road,
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  Speaker 1: he knew his patient was now in good hands, but
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  Speaker 1: he was still very shaken by the whole experience because
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  Speaker 1: this type of emergency, somebody going into unexplained sudden cardiac
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  Speaker 1: arrest following a totally routine surgery, was extremely rare, meaning
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  Speaker 1: for this to happen even just once over the course
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  Speaker 1: of somebody's medical career, to have witnessed something like that
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  Speaker 1: was very rare. But for doctor Marsden, this was not
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  Speaker 1: the first time he had seen this. In fact, literally
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  Speaker 1: the day before, a different patient at the Surgecare Center
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  Speaker 1: had also gone into sudden, unexplained cardiac arrest following their
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  Speaker 1: routine procedure. So as doctor Marsden went back inside and
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  Speaker 1: began heading upstairs to the hospital administrator's office to tell
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  Speaker 1: them about this latest emergency, he kept thinking to himself
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  Speaker 1: how crazy it was that he had just witnessed these
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  Speaker 1: two unexplained sudden cardiac arrests, basically back to back. But
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  Speaker 1: doctor Marsden just thought to himself, you know, hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: is just a really bad coincidence. The Surgeoncare Center's administrator
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  Speaker 1: was a woman named Ashley Burks, and when she heard
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  Speaker 1: about this second unexplained cardiac arrest, she knew she had
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  Speaker 1: to call a staff meeting, and so that evening she
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  Speaker 1: along with doctor Marsden and over two dozen other medical staff, doctors, nurses,
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  Speaker 1: other anesthesiologists. They met in this conference room in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the building, and once everybody was assembled, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: began by updating everyone on the two patients who had
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  Speaker 1: been rushed off to the hospital for their cardiac emergencies,
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  Speaker 1: and she said they had stabilized and they'd be okay.
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  Speaker 1: But Ashley then said what everybody in the room was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: which is sudden, unexplained cardiac arrest is so rare. We
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  Speaker 1: can't just treat these things like coincidence, Like something specifically
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  Speaker 1: must have caused these incidents, and we need to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what that thing was. Now, it was possible that
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  Speaker 1: the cause or causes behind these incidents were quite simple,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley said to the group. You know, the first thing
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  Speaker 1: she did was she looked at the two patients' files
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  Speaker 1: to see if they had specific drug allergies or medical
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  Speaker 1: risk factors that might have been overlooked by staff. But
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  Speaker 1: when she looked at their files, neither patient had those
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  Speaker 1: risk factors or allergies, so that couldn't have been it.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley said she also looked for just a common thread
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  Speaker 1: between the two incidents, like were the patients doing something similar,
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  Speaker 1: were they in for similar reasons? Were they in the
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  Speaker 1: same room. But no, they were in different operating rooms,
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  Speaker 1: going through different procedures with different medical teams, and so
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  Speaker 1: there was no obvious common thread between the two incidents.
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  Speaker 1: So Ashley said to the group that the only reasonable
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  Speaker 1: explanation that she could think of, at least at this
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  Speaker 1: point was that perhaps the equipment in the Surgic Care
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  Speaker 1: Center had malfunctioned, and so what she was going to do,
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  Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution, was just begin testing
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  Speaker 1: all of the equipment in the building. And so Ashley
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  Speaker 1: told the group that in the meantime while she was
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  Speaker 1: doing that, the rest of the staff should be extra
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  Speaker 1: attentive to their patients and also be on the lookout
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  Speaker 1: for potential problems with hospital equipment. Ashley watched the medical
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  Speaker 1: staff all nod their heads in agreement and begin sort
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  Speaker 1: of talking to each other, and then she thanked them
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  Speaker 1: all for being there and told them they could leave.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks later, on the afternoon of June twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley stood outside the oar in the hallway, looking through
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  Speaker 1: a cabinet that contained surgical drugs. Ashley was still trying
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  Speaker 1: to find a connection between those two sudden cardiac arrests.
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  Speaker 1: She'd already checked all the Surgeycare Center's equipment, from the
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  Speaker 1: anesthesia machines to the vital sign monitors to the breathing tubes,
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  Speaker 1: and everything was in perfect working condition, and so now
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  Speaker 1: checking these drugs inside of this cabinet was sort of
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  Speaker 1: like her last resort. She'd printed out a list of
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  Speaker 1: recent drug recalls and was now comparing that list against
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  Speaker 1: all of the drugs inside of this cabinet, And so
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  Speaker 1: one by one she was reading a drug and checking
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  Speaker 1: the date on it and comparing it with her list
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  Speaker 1: to make sure, you know, they were not carrying recalled drugs. Still,
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  Speaker 1: but after going through dozens and dozens of bottles, there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing in their cabinet that was on the recall list.
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  Speaker 1: So Ashley still just did not have an answer for
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  Speaker 1: why those two cardiac emergencies had happened. However, since that
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  Speaker 1: staff meeting three weeks earlier, the Surgeycare Center had not
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  Speaker 1: had another cardiac emergency, and so Ashley was thinking to herself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe, you know, despite not knowing how this happened,
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  Speaker 1: these troubles are in the past. Ashley got the drug
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  Speaker 1: cabinet and walked down the hallway towards the break room
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  Speaker 1: to grab her lunch. But the moment she walked inside,
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  Speaker 1: she saw a group of her colleagues sitting around a
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  Speaker 1: table looking very upset. In fact, some people were visibly crying,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ashley walked up to them and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on and a nurse told her that one
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  Speaker 1: of their colleagues, an anesthesiologist named doctor Melanie Caspar, was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the night before she had a heart attack at
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  Speaker 1: her home and her husband had found her and called
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  Speaker 1: nine to one one, but unfortunately, by the time paramedics arrived,
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  Speaker 1: she was already deceased. Ashley was shocked. She knew doctor Caspar,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew she was in great shape. She was
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  Speaker 1: only in her mid fifties. I mean, she did not
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  Speaker 1: seem like someone who might just randomly have a heart attack.
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  Speaker 1: But then also Ashley began to think that she remembered
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  Speaker 1: hearing in the last few days that doctor Caspar had
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  Speaker 1: actually been feeling sick, and so she wondered if maybe
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  Speaker 1: whatever illness she was suffering from had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with her heart attack. Either way, As the Surgeacare administrator,
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  Speaker 1: it was at Ashley's job to plan staff events like
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  Speaker 1: memorial services, and so Ashley told the group like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to work putting together a small ceremony for
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  Speaker 1: doctor Caspar. Five days later, on June twenty seventh, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in front of her office computer, ordering supplies
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  Speaker 1: for doctor Caspar's memorial when suddenly she heard these loud,
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  Speaker 1: fast footsteps out in the hall, as if somebody was
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  Speaker 1: sprinting towards her office. And then a moment later, Ashley
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  Speaker 1: saw her door burst open and the anesthesiologist, doctor Chad Marsden,
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  Speaker 1: was standing there, and he looked absolutely horrified, and he
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  Speaker 1: just said to her, it's happening again. Ashley's stomach dropped
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  Speaker 1: and she jumped up and sprinted after doctor Marsden, and
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  Speaker 1: they made their way to the hallway outside of the
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  Speaker 1: r and when they got there, Ashley immediately heard the
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  Speaker 1: sound of that long, single beap of somebody's heart monitor flatlining.
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  Speaker 1: And she looked over and she saw one of the
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  Speaker 1: doors to an operating room was open, and inside she
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  Speaker 1: saw a surgeon performing chess compressions on an elderly patient.
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  Speaker 1: And even from out in the hall, Ashley could tell
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  Speaker 1: this man was unconscious. His skin was gray, and he
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  Speaker 1: was foaming at the mouth. It was exactly like the
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  Speaker 1: other cardiac emergencies that had happened before, except this time
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  Speaker 1: was worse because that beep, that flatlining beep, meant that
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  Speaker 1: this man's heart had actually stopped. And so Ashley just
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  Speaker 1: stood there in horror watching the surgeon perform these chess compressions,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that if that didn't work, they couldn't get this
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  Speaker 1: man's heart started again. He was about to die. Just
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  Speaker 1: then Ashley heard the sound of the doors leading into
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  Speaker 1: ther hallway open, and these two paramedics came rushing inside,
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  Speaker 1: and right as they passed her and got to the
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  Speaker 1: doorway leading in to where this man was basically dying,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley heard the sound of the flatline beep turn into
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  Speaker 1: regular beeping, which meant the surgeon who was doing chess
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  Speaker 1: compressions had managed to restart this man's heart, and so
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  Speaker 1: Ashley was relieved, but by no means thought they're out
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  Speaker 1: of the woods yet. I mean, this man clearly is
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  Speaker 1: going through a medical emergency here. But the paramedics got
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  Speaker 1: the man off ther table, they put them on a
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  Speaker 1: stretcher and they wheeled them away. And so once they
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  Speaker 1: were gone, Ashley, doctor Marsden, and the surgeon who had
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  Speaker 1: been doing the chess compressions, they all just looked at
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  Speaker 1: each other like, what is going on here? Clearly there
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  Speaker 1: is something causing all these sudden cardiac arrests, but still
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  Speaker 1: nobody knew what it was. Ashley just stood there for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, feeling absolutely sick to her stomach. If it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the drugs, and if it wasn't the medical equipment
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  Speaker 1: observed every single employee of the search Care Center to
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  Speaker 1: make sure they really were following their protocol absolutely to
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  Speaker 1: a t, and one after another, through her research, she
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  Speaker 1: discovered that they all work, They were doing exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they were supposed to be doing, so the cardiac arrests
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  Speaker 1: could not be chalked up to faulty equipment, recalled drugs,
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  Speaker 1: or human error. Yet the cardiac emergencies kept on happening
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  Speaker 1: at the surgiacare Center. There were three incidents in July
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  Speaker 1: and four more incidents in the first three weeks of August,
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  Speaker 1: and so in total that made ten patients at the
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  Speaker 1: Surgiccare Center who had all gone in to sudden, unexplained
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  Speaker 1: cardiac arrest. Now, none of them had died, but Ashley
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  Speaker 1: knew a few of them had been left with permanent
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  Speaker 1: heart damage. People were getting seriously injured on her watch,
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  Speaker 1: and she felt like, you know, she can't figure out
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here, and so it's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time until somebody does die from one of these
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  Speaker 1: cardiac emergencies. And so she was feeling completely overwhelmed and
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  Speaker 1: stressed out and desperate until August twenty fourth, when two
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  Speaker 1: things happened in quick succession. First, in the morning of
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  Speaker 1: August twenty fourth, Ashley received a phone call from an
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  Speaker 1: officer at the Dallas Police Department and they told her
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  Speaker 1: that the autopsy had been completed on doctor Melanie Caspar,
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  Speaker 1: the anesthesiologist who had died back in June from a
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  Speaker 1: heart attack at her home. And this police officer thought
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  Speaker 1: that Ashley really needed to know that her heart attack
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  Speaker 1: had not been natural. It was actually caused by an
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  Speaker 1: overdose of a drug called bupivocane. So Ashley knew what
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  Speaker 1: pupivocane was. It was a drug that was basically only
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  Speaker 1: used in surgical anesthesia. But Ashley had never heard of
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  Speaker 1: anybody abusing this drug or overdosing on it, because pupivcane
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  Speaker 1: does not make you high like morphine or fentanyl does.
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  Speaker 1: It's closer to novacane. It's like a numbing agent. And
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  Speaker 1: so Ashley told the officer how weird it was the
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  Speaker 1: idea that she had died of an overdose of pupivocane,
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  Speaker 1: of all drugs, and the officer agreed with her, but regardless,
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  Speaker 1: he thought Ashley should know because he thought it was
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  Speaker 1: possible that doctor Caspar had gotten the pupivocane from the
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  Speaker 1: surgic care center, and so, feeling totally confused, Ashley thanked
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  Speaker 1: the officer for telling her. Then they hung up, and
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  Speaker 1: then Ashley walked to the oar hallway to check the
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  Speaker 1: drug cabinet where drugs like pupivocane were stored. But as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she entered that hallway, the second thing happened
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  Speaker 1: that Ashley heard chaos break out inside of an operating
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  Speaker 1: room where she knew an eighteen year old boy was
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  Speaker 1: undergoing what should have been a routine sinus surgery, and
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  Speaker 1: so she watched helplessly as the doors flung open and
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  Speaker 1: a nurse came running out into the hall to call
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  Speaker 1: an ambulance. And then inside the room, Ashley saw an
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  Speaker 1: anesthesiologist performing chess compressions on this boy and another doctor
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  Speaker 1: was administering oxygen and blood pressure medication. It was the
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  Speaker 1: same nightmare playing out now for an eleventh time, but
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  Speaker 1: this time, after the EMTs wheeled this boy away to
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  Speaker 1: be driven off to the local hospital, Ashley was so
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  Speaker 1: desperate to figure out what was going on here that
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  Speaker 1: she just couldn't wait and so she rounded up a
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  Speaker 1: couple of hospital staffers that were nearby, and they went
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  Speaker 1: into that operating room and they checked the medical equipment,
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  Speaker 1: they checked the drugs that had been used. They searched
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  Speaker 1: the floor for anything that might have had something to
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  Speaker 1: do with this. I mean, they even searched the trash can.
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  Speaker 1: And in the trash, Ashley found something that the second
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  Speaker 1: she saw it, it made her blood. I'd run cold.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't believe somebody would do something this awful or
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  Speaker 1: why they would do this, And so she took the
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  Speaker 1: things she found in the trash and she ran out
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  Speaker 1: of the operating room and upstairs to call the police.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes later, two police officers arrived at the Surgecare Center
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  Speaker 1: and they saw what Ashley had found in the trash,
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  Speaker 1: and when they looked at it, they knew they had
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  Speaker 1: a very serious situation on their hands, and so right
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  Speaker 1: away they roped off the operating room where this eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old boy had been and they began looking for
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  Speaker 1: evidence inside of there. And then also they began reviewing
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  Speaker 1: the security camera footage from the O R hallway, and
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  Speaker 1: as they reviewed this footage, they would find something truly
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  Speaker 1: chilling going on in that hallway. That totally explained all
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  Speaker 1: of the sudden cardiac arrests that had been happening inside
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  Speaker 1: the surgcare center. This is what they saw on the
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  Speaker 1: clearest piece of footage, which was shot five days earlier
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  Speaker 1: on August nineteenth. A hospital employee is seen walking down
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  Speaker 1: the Oer hallway carrying a stack of papers under his arm.
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  Speaker 1: He walks past a couple of his colleagues and he
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  Speaker 1: arrives in front of this big metallic device that sort
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  Speaker 1: of looks like a refrigerator, and he opens it up
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  Speaker 1: and he reaches inside and he pulls out a saline
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  Speaker 1: IV bag. Now when he does this, nobody else in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway bats an eye, because this is a totally
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  Speaker 1: normal thing to do. That metal device was a warming
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  Speaker 1: machine where saline IV bags were stored to be used
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  Speaker 1: during or after surgeries. At any given point, this warmer
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  Speaker 1: would contain a few dozen IV bags, and whenever it
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  Speaker 1: got low, certain staff members would restock it. But the
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  Speaker 1: police watched this footage over and over again and they
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  Speaker 1: saw this employee who walks up to the warmer was
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  Speaker 1: not just carrying a stack of papers. He was also
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  Speaker 1: hiding something within those papers, his own saline IV bag,
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  Speaker 1: and so before this man takes out an IV bag
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  Speaker 1: from the warmer, he takes this hidden one and places
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  Speaker 1: it in the warmer as well, so he's basically swapped
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  Speaker 1: one for one. This was absolutely bizarre because it was
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  Speaker 1: not his job to be restocking the warmer. He shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been putting anything inside of the warmer. And so
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  Speaker 1: about thirty minutes after this employee has placed his own
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  Speaker 1: IV bag inside of the warmer, a nurse comes out
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  Speaker 1: of the oar, walks down the hallway, opens up the warmer,
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  Speaker 1: takes one of the warmed up IV bags, carries it
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  Speaker 1: down the hall, goes back into the oar, and minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: her patient goes into cardiac arrest. It would turn out
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  Speaker 1: that nurse had inadvertently grabbed the saline bag that the
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  Speaker 1: male employee had secretly placed just minutes before, and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that that saline bag is what caused the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: cardiac arrest. Nobody knew until days later, when Ashley is
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: so desperate to figure out why all these patients are
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: going into cardiac arrest that she began searching through the
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  Speaker 1: trash and she would find an empty IV bag, and
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  Speaker 1: she would see very clearly there was a little puncture
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  Speaker 1: on it big enough for a needle, and so after
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  Speaker 1: seeing this security footage, the police analyzed that empty IV
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  Speaker 1: bag that Ashley had found in the trash with a
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  Speaker 1: puncture on it to see exactly what was in that
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  Speaker 1: IV that went into the eighteen year old who also
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  Speaker 1: went into cardiac arrest, and inside they found a combination
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  Speaker 1: of three drugs that, when combined, are like a biological
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  Speaker 1: bomb that will send somebody into cardiac arrest within minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They were lydocane, which is an anesthetic, epinephrine, which is
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: basically pure adrenaline, and crucially, the third drug found was pupivocane,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the anesthetic that doctor Melanie Caspar had overdosed on which
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: caused her to die of a heart attack. And this
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: discovery meant that doctor Caspar's death was almost certainly connected
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to these poisoned IV bags. In the few days before
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: doctor Caspar's death, she had been feeling sick and dehydrated,
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  Speaker 1: and on the day of her death, she was feeling
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: so unwell at work that, unbeknownst to any of her colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: she had taken a saline IV bag from that warmer
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  Speaker 1: and brought it home with her to rehydrate herself, but
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: unfortunately the one that she grabbed was one of the
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  Speaker 1: poisoned ones. When paramedics arrived at doctor Caspar's home, they
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: found her still with the ivy needle in her arm.
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  Speaker 1: But at the time, nobody connected her death with all
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of the cardiac emergencies at the Surgeacare Center. Well, nobody
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: except for the employee who was actually poisoning the iv bas.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: That employee was an anesthesiologist, but it was not doctor
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Chad Marsden. It was the person that doctor Marsden had
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: to get out of the way for in the hallway
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  Speaker 1: that first time his patient had gone into cardiac arrest.
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  Speaker 1: The man who was doing the tampering was doctor Raynaldo Ortis.
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  Speaker 1: He was fifty eight years old and he had only
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: worked at the Surgecare Center for about a year, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: he had flown mostly under the radar there until May
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: nineteenth of twenty twenty two, which was about a week
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  Speaker 1: before the sudden, unexplained cardiac arrests had begun at the
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  Speaker 1: Surgecare Center. On that day. On May nineteenth, doctor Ortiz
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  Speaker 1: had allowed one of his patients to stop breathing nearly
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  Speaker 1: killing the patient. And so as a result of that incident,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: doctor Ortiz had been placed under internal investigation by the
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  Speaker 1: Surgecare Center and he was facing the possibility of losing
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: his medical license because of negligence. So to try to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: avoid losing his medical license, doctor Ortiz decided he would
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: just try to make all the other doctors look negligent too,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: taking the attention off of himself, and so he began
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: sabotaging his colleague surgeries by injecting those drugs into their
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: patient's IV bags, knowing it would cause cardiac arrest. Now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: none of the patients who went into cardiac arrest at
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Surgecare Center died. However, doctor Caspar, who took that
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: tampered IV back home with her, did die, and so
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ultimately doctor Ortiz was responsible for her death. In April
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, doctor Ortiz was found guilty on
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: multiple charges and he is currently facing a sentence of
• 22:01
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• 23:32
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• 23:36
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• 24:01
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• 24:24
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• 24:28
  Speaker 1: could taste something metallic in his mouth, and the foul
• 24:31
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• 24:34
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