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Death in dental office...male 18 years. by Haynes Darlington M.Sc. PharmD.
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Death in dental office...male 18 years. |
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Education,Fitness,Health
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WATERLOO, ON Canada (Jul 11, 2007) Male 18 yrs went to a Waterloo dental surgeon to have three wisdom teeth pulled.While his mother settled into the waiting room, the Waterloo teen sat back in the dentist’s chair and slipped under a general anesthetic.Then something went so wrong that he was left struggling for breath. Soon, a call was going out to 911, and the anesthesiologist present for the procedure was trying to resuscitate him.Paramedics, then doctors at Grand River Hospital tried everything, but by the next evening, the 18-year-old was dead.Now, the Waterloo Region coroner, assisted by regional police, is trying to determine what happened to the healthy young man, who was undergoing a dental procedure routinely performed on patients his age.“This is such an anomaly,” The registrar for the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, said of the death last Thursday.“It’s so unusual and rare. We are all in a state of shock and sadness. This is a safe procedure.” The oral surgeon performing the extraction, said the tragedy that occurred in his office is “once in a lifetime.” A practitioner, for 32 years, would not discuss what went wrong, saying only that the surgery hadn’t started when patient got into trouble. Within seven minutes, an ambulance arrived. Five minutes later a second ambulance with more advanced equipment was on scene.But when paramedics arrived, the patient's heart had stopped beating. They frantically tried to resuscitate the teen but couldn’t. Someone then noticed a kink in the tube that was to supply oxygen to the patient. The tube was blocked. At Grand River Hospital, doctors put the patient on life support. With help, his heart started beating again but his organs weren’t functioning.“We made the decision to disconnect,” said the patient's father.“I watched his heart fade away. Our life will never be the same. It’s too short a life". Comments to author. localanesthetics@yahoo.ca M.Sc. PharmD. CCPE
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