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Podcast: Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast
Episode: #285 Safer Smiles
Description: A routine dental visit should never turn into a medical emergency. We sit down with Dr. Rita Agarwal, pediatric anesthesiologist and patient safety advocate, to unpack why dental anesthesia operates on a separate track from hospital-based care—and how that gap can put patients at risk. From the heartbreaking story of six-year-old Caleb Sears to the hard truths about monitoring requirements, staffing models, and training, this conversation brings clarity to a topic most families and many clinicians assume is standardized.We dive into what “sedation” really means in dentistry, why route-based labels can hide true depth of anesth...