Any anesthesiologists out there care to speculate on what could of happened?
Travis has said the dental staff gave Diamond a liquid sedative, followed by nitrous oxide and intravenous sedation. Travis said she entered the office after the procedure and saw her daughter lying motionless on her side in a dentist chair.The girl’s head was rolled back, her eyes were in the back of her head and she wasn’t breathing, Travis said.
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A five-year-old with that many cavities and a need for caps?
This is not the first pediatric dentistry death I am aware of. A mixture of oral and IV sedation with some nitrous in this five year old may well have been too much. If my child had to have these procedures done, it would be done in a hospital setting with an anethesiologist.
60 Minutes did a special some years ago on deaths in an oral surgeon’s office. This kind of tragedy is not unknown, and wholly avoidable.
I’m always flabergasted by patients who upon engaging in a discussion of informed consent for a surgical procedure are often paralyzed by the thought of undergoing general anesthesia, but speak cavalierly about being “put to sleep” in a dental office as though it were as inconsequential as getting a cavity filled.
Children also are sedated for mri scans but Now can get a upright mri scan sitting on thir Mothers lap watching TV without sedation
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