LOS ANGELES – Jacobi Hill (six) died. He died after undergoing procedures for installing crown (crown) of artificial teeth in dental clinics owned by Virginia Commonwealth University, Tuesday (11/05/2010). According to his grandmother, Corolyn Suggs, when the doctor was putting the crown gear, Jacobi had a heart attack and died. In a statement, the university said it was doing in-depth investigation and autopsies to find the cause of death was shocking. “The procedures for anesthesia during the operation was appropriate dental and health workers also directly comes soon after a heart attack,” he said.
Installation of crown gear teeth are often carried out if the doctor is so damaged that they can not be filled with small patches. In this procedure, doctors will remove the damaged teeth and prepare teeth for crowns wrapped fake. The process of filling teeth with crowns dentures done to prevent infection. However, this procedure can make children irritable and uneasy. This certainly will complicate the doctor so that sometimes the dentist injecting a local anesthetic.
A study said the drug propofol is used more than 25 433 dental procedures in children, but the majority get the drugs for the inspection of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging).
Approximately 6 percent of anesthetic procedures cause complications, but very rarely the cause of death. The experts suspect, the use of propofol anesthesia in children is often exaggerated. “Actually there is another method that can be used,” said Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer, child anesthesiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. In general anesthetic is not allergic. “Statistically, it is extremely rare harmless complication of anesthetic procedures,” Zeltzer said. However, he asserted, there is the possibility of individuals who are hypersensitive response to the drug.
The results, published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia mention, since the year 1998-2004, there are 193 recorded cases of heart attacks in children when they’re drugged.
Dr. Eduardo Fraifeld, President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, said the duty anesthesiologist not only determine the appropriate dose to make someone unconscious and pain-free, but must also constantly monitor the vital signs during surgery. “Doctors also need to monitor anesthesia breathing, heartbeat, patient’s response to the stimulation, the wasted blood, urine expenditure, and monitor medication. Many things must be supervised at a time,” said Fraifeld.
Therefore, there is a standard procedure before making the medical action is to do informed consent, provide a description of actions to be taken including the risks, and seek approval of the patient / family. Also, ask what medications taken in the near future to detect drugs that can interact with anesthetic drugs. If there is any doubt, the blood of patients need to be examined to determine the remaining drugs.
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