Posted on 07/20/2006 5:29:24 PM PDT by Battle Axe
Wow, I never heard of this. I had sedation dentistry to remove wisdom teeth and woke up just fine.
Freeper needs help with sedation dentistry
To answer your question, yes! it's ok to do shots of "151" before having this procedure.
My uncle has a pacemaker. You would not believe the tests and red tape he had to go through to get a mole removed, including two different stress tests, a whole series of blood tests.
Sorry for their loss. If it's not one thing it's another.
You are probably not almost 91.
The real question is why didn't the dentist check him out further due to his age? I know he looked and acted like a kid. He could out fish me and his daughter put together.
He was not the least bit overweight. He got up at 5 a.m. and ate an orange and a grapefruit. He looked 75 or less.
Thanks for your comments. No one ever expected this, but I guess no one ever does.
I talked to someone on the plane on the way back from the funeral. He was a social worker and said that the fastest growing group of suicidal souls are the elderly.
Sorry to hear about your friend, Battle Axe. Mr. VITW gets his dental with the VA, they are pretty thorough going over all his pre-existings. Prayers being said for his family.
I am sure we have some physicians here who can help you out.
I do know that the elderly are very vulnerable to electrolyte imbalances. My grandmother was hospitalized for over a week while they got her back in balance.
She always drank a great deal of water and tended to avoid salt (she said it burned her mouth) and because of her grief over the loss of her husband she was not eating hardly at all. The combination affected her grasp on reality which was why she was checked in to the hospital were they found the problem.
I don't know but if he was not eating because of the pain in his mouth and was drinking lots of fluids the same thing could have happened to your dad's friend.
A single IV would not have necessarily cleared the problem up.
I'm surprised that the dentist did not,at the very least,require a letter from his primary care physician clearing him for a tooth extraction.
Some people with a story like yours might be inclined to consult a malpractice lawyer.
Had a number of doctors try to do this to my grandfather not long ago.
This is so terribly sad. I don't know what the protocol would be for sedating a 91 year old man, but I do know that even my healthy, relatively young dog has a screen (BUN counts etc) before my vet puts him under. It almost seems inconceivable that your Dad's friend would be put under full sedation at that age without a full work-up.So many things can go wrong. Do know what sedative was used?
No, don't know what one. Will find out.
The reason I ask is I recall reading that there are some sedative agents that have been known to cause psychosis in some patients, just can't recall what. If you can find out exactly what he was given, by all means google it.
Thanks so very much for that info. That may be the problem.
I've also heard that a sodium imbalance can also create similar problems.
Sorry for your loss. Here are some links from PubMed that may get you started
Major morbidity or mortality from office anesthetic procedures: a closed-claim analysis of 13 cases
" The disproportionate number of patients in this sample who were at the extremes of age and with ASA classifications below I suggests that anesthesia risk may be significantly increased in patients who fall outside the healthy, young adult category typically treated in the oral surgical/dental outpatient setting."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=1839816
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