Monitoring

How thoroughly will you be monitoring my child during anesthesia?

Your child will be monitored at the same comprehensive level of depth that occurs in hospital operating rooms. The American Society of Anesthesiology stipulates the level of monitoring that should occur anytime general anesthesia occurs anywhere in the country. This includes anesthesia occurring in a dental facility, and so your child will be monitored in the same fashion as how a patient receiving a major surgery in a hospital would be monitored.

To be specific, I bring with me to the dental clinic equipment that allows me to continually monitor your child’s temperature, heart rate, EKG tracing, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and carbon dioxide production. These are the same methods of monitoring that occur during the most major of surgeries in hospitals (e.g. removal of appendix, gall bladder, or other organs; Cesarean section delivery, bone surgeries, etc.).