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1 gru 2017 · How should we respond (clinically and through public policy) to the problem of childhood deaths after anesthesia for dental procedures?
The AAP recently updated their Guideline for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients Before, During, and After Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures. 1 The original 1985 guideline was developed following concerns regarding children in California who died undergoing dental or oral surgery procedures. 8 The guideline has now ...
1 maj 2018 · The recent Ethics Rounds article, “Death After Pediatric Dental Anesthesia: An Avoidable Tragedy,”1 featuring a hypothetical case scenario of a child.
Names of dental materials are included in numerous procedure nomenclatures within several Categories of Service (e.g., Restorative; Prosthodontics, fixed). The following list of dental materials is included in the CDT Code solely to
There is no mandated reporting of adverse events or deaths, so we don't know how often these occur. In this article, we present a case of a death after dental anesthesia and ask experts to speculate on how to improve the quality and safety of both the prevention and treatment of ECC.
D9110 palliative (emergency) treatment of dental pain – minor procedure – per visit. Treatment that relieves pain but is not curative; services provided do not have distinct procedure codes. This is typically reported on a. “per-visit” basis for emergency treatment of dental pain.
Results: Most deaths occurred among 2-5 year-olds (n = 21/44), in an office setting (n = 21/44), and with a general/pediatric dentist (n = 25/44) as the anesthesia provider. In this latter group, 17 of 25 deaths were linked with a sedation anesthetic.
