A Colorado jury on Wednesday acquitted a plastic surgeon of negligent homicide in the death of a teen patient but found him guilty on less serious counts.

Jurors found Geoffrey Kim guilty of attempted reckless manslaughter, a felony usually punished by one to three years in prison, and obstructing a telephone, a misdemeanor, after he didn’t call for help for hours after his patient, Emmalyn Nguyen, went into cardiac arrest, the Denver Post reported.

Nguyen was 18 when she went to Kim for breast augmentation surgery in August 2019, as CrimeOnline reported. She suffered cardiac arrest after anesthesia, but Kim didn’t call for help for five hours. She fell into a coma and died more than a year later, in October 2020.

Defense attorneys argued during the week-long trial that anethesiologist Rex Meeker gave Nguyen a mix of dangerous drugs before the surgery and a too-large dose of fentanyl. Together, the drugs stopped her heart.

Meeker had been charged in connection with Nguyen’s death, but prosecutors dropped the charges against him in September.

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[Featured image: Emmalyn Nguyen/family handout]